Word: ele
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing But Flops. At 23 Gide was a pale, thin neurotic who roamed the streets of Paris with brown beard, affectedly long hair and a spectacular cape. Timid and tongue-tied in public, he was constantly depressed about his work, his cousin Emmanuèele's refusal to marry him and the discovery that he had tuberculosis...
After his mother's death, Gide finally married Cousin Emmanuèele. She is the prototype of characters in several of his books, always as a devoted friend, with a long-suffering piety and a love of God that Gide sometimes found irritating. Em, as Gid e refers to her, is an off-stage character in the Journals. Critic Georges Lemaitre says of Emmanueéle that "when she came to understand his moral perversity, she shrank from him and 'took refuge in God.'" The Journals prove that she had unusual endurance. She died...
Betancourt and Gallegos had been exiles in the days of tyrannical dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. They had returned to Venezuela to help prod President Eleázar López Contreras along the path of measured democracy. For a time they had gotten along with his successor, Medina. But they had broken with Medina when he failed 1) to tackle the nation's economic problems squarely, 2) to change the constitution so that the President could be elected by direct suffrage...
Yale Sweater. He had four weeks before sailing. He went back to Yale, sweated for two days over the structure of the Chinese language, got it down to ele ments that could be written on a small sheet of paper. Next Hockett listened to two Chinese civilian assistants, Fang and Chew Hong, talk Chinese for three and a half weeks. The simplest and clearest remarks were cut on wax. Then Hockett, Fang, Hong and the officers sailed for China with lesson books, a few records, some hand-wind phonographs...