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...Sack speaks to us in not one but nine languages on the pages of this dreary little treatise. There are passages in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Latin, and a bastard tongue called Talkie-talkie; phrases like "non, ce n'etait pas moi" (French) and 'nihongo wa wakarimasu ka (Japanese, perhaps) go untranslated; and even when he keeps to English, Mr. Sack uses words like tarsier, euphoria, and hematemesis. The reader might well ask: what is Mr. Sack trying to hide? The answer can be found in chapter 19, if one has the idleness or stamina to read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Here to Shimbashi | 4/12/1955 | See Source »

When The Man Who Came to Dinner opened on Broadway in 1939, it was an immediate hit, ran for 739 performances. Last week L'Homme Qui Etait Venn Pour Diner closed in Paris after 16 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: French Without Tears | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...Frenchli etait une bergere Old FrenchDisons le Chapelet Old Frenchli etat des Filles (with flute) Old FrenchLe Chateau d'Amour Old FrenchLes trois Capitaines Old FrenchMiss Collin

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 12/1/1928 | See Source »

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