Word: du
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little book, actually a Harvard bound copy of a 1775 pamphlet published anonymously in the popular press, chronicles the life of Madame du Barry, the last of the "titular mistresses," was one of my unexpected discoveries. I didn't even realize what it was until I got it home one day last November...
...been poking around the basement for about half an hour, trying valiantly to match the numbers I had copied from the card catalogue with those printed on the bindings of the shelved books, when the title "Mad. la Comt. du Barry" caught my eye. I grabbed it on the way to the elevator...
...well and good for the time being, Michel thinks, but what he has in mind | for the boys is a larger education. Before he is through, they will all be citoyens du monde. He uncorked a bottle of vin rouge and placed a large, juicy slab of meat on the charcoal grill. He looked serene, and if there were a word to sum up why, it would have to be a French one, naturally. Debrouillardise, say. Roughly, it means to know your way around...
MESSIAEN: Turangalila-Symphonie; LUTOSLAWSKI: Les Espaces du Sommeil, Symphony No. 3. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra (Messiaen) and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Lutoslawski...
Researchers, however, have been making some progress. Darold Treffert, a psychiatrist in Fond du Lac, Wis., who is a nationally recognized expert on savants, points out that sophisticated tools like computerized scans have improved methods for investigating the functions of the brain. Reading and language ability seem to be controlled by the left side of the brain; art, music and mathematics by the right. Says Treffert: "The skills of the savants are generally right-brain skills, and we know that in many cases of savants there is left-brain damage." He explains, "We think now that the right brain tends...