Word: esteli
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...Chaucerian spirit is largely missing from a British musical called Canterbury Tales, which has not thrived on a sea change from London. Surprisingly commercial, it treats sex as a commodity and faith as an epilogue, in the manner of a Cecil B. DeMille devotional epic. Nothing is mod est about the show except its quality...
...psychology, insisted that this proposition was unproved, and required further study. Besides, he added: "We don't yet have the methodology with which to make the study." Boggs quickly recollected congressional committee investigations that have been going on since 1954. His voice rose. "This is the study-est thing that has ever happened with no results," he said. "How long, Mr. Chairman? How long...
...forging a dubious tradition of brilliantly staging mediocre material. Last season, the company managed to make interesting evenings out of two rather lumbering efforts from Africa - Song of the Lusitanian Bogey and Kongi's Harvest. The play the Negro Ensemble offered last week lumbers out of dark est Georgia. God Is a (Guess What?) was written by Atlanta Schoolteacher Ray Mclver, whose intention was clearly to make a cutting satire of black-white relations...
...books published about Charles de Gaulle, the most engrossing may well be a little biography for children, complete with charming drawings and simple text. Yet the unknown author, writing under the pseudonym Xavier Arito-marchi, laces his pabulum with Tabasco. "La France est a moi," says young Charles as he plays soldiers, grabbing the French poilus for himself, while forcing his brothers to take the Ger man and English sides. There is another happy scene of Charles playing pyramid-standing on a shield held by his playmates. And on and on. The caption, beside a picture of De Gaulle nestled...
...recueil on voit l'effort des etudiants s'allier au passe: invocation de dates revolutionaires citations de St. Just, Babeuf, Bakounine, appel a un role historique ("Deculottez vos phrases pour etre a la hauteur des sans culottes.") Vue apres l'echec humiliante des elections, cette solidarite avec l'histoire est ironique et inquietante...