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...seemed as though Jewish settlers would just try to acquire Arab tenants or laborers and replace the Turks, much as other colonists elsewhere replaced native exploiters of labor, even though the first stirrings of Arab nationalism--directed against the Turks--were beginning to be felt in Palestine. Baron Edmond de Rothschild poured considerable amounts of money into buying up land and settling Jews on it, with Arab peasants continuing to do the work. If this sort of thing had continued, Israel might have developed--if it developed at all--as a state close to the South African model: an upper...
...HAUMAN Edmond, Okla...
Translated and adapted from EDMOND ROSTAND by ANTHONY BURGESS...
Anthony Burgess is undoubtedly a genius. If it weren't for Christopher Plummer's nearly flawless performance and the percise, well-conceived staging of director Michael Kidd, Burgess might have succeeded in turning Edmond Rostand's intelligent play into the sentimental pap Cyrano de Bergerac clearly wasn't. Cyrano the new musical running three weeks in Boston before its Broadway debut, muffles the impact of the original play...
...into a mistress I had during my last year at school," wrote the Parisian diarist Edmond de Goncourt in 1855, the year in which an unknown 14-year-old apprentice named Pierre Auguste Renoir sat painting flowers on teacups, 60 the dozen, in a china shop in Rue du Temple. "There were still girls like her in those days, girls with a little of the grisette left under their cashmere shawls...She was still the same girl, with the eyes I had loved, her little nose, the lips flat as if crushed by kisses, the supple figure...