Word: ets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally retired in 1816, and no French leader since then has been able to disentangle the mysterious, proliferating networks-within-net-works of French security agencies. Today France has no fewer than a dozen, ranging from the trench-coated men from S.D.E.C.E. (Service de Documentation Extérieure et Contre-Espionnage) to the blue-frocked flics. So, when friendly intelligence agents from another country ask French help in getting their man, there is always someone in Paris to oblige...
...certainly is horrid. Like the little girl, it is moody, often funny, sometimes serious, frequently and petulantly cute, and then again just plain naughty. Within a scant hour, it manages to touch on the following subjects: the American Ideal, larceny, age, prostitution, sypnilis, dope addiction, juvenile delinquency, homosexuality, et al. That kind of range would be difficult in any play--in The Great American Desert, it's insurmountable...
...your story on the Book of Common Prayer [Dec. 31], you credit modern scholars with "drab, bureaucratic writing" that renders the 23rd Psalm: "The Lord is my shepherd: therefore can I lack nothing." The "blame" lies not with T. S. Eliot et al. but with Bishop Miles Coverdale, who wrote the psalm that way in his "Great Bible" of 1539. When Archbishop Cranmer drafted the first Prayer Book in 1549, he used Coverdale's version of the Psalter; that version is still used in British and American Prayer Books. The King James Bible, of course, was not issued until...
Pickled okra. Spinach soufflé. Double divinity. Et, mon Dieu, ze bar-bé-cue! Escoffier would have turned in his grave. Last week White House Chef René Verdon, who is only mortal, turned in his apron instead...
...hand behind the A.C.M.P., operates the organization out of her Manhattan apartment. The A.C.M.P. directory includes a large number of noted doctors, professors and diplomats, but the only distinctions A.C.M.P. members care about are their musical rankings: from Pro for professional and A for excellent down to D for "et cetera," which, says Secretary Rice (violin-B) "is a delicate way of saying bad." Each member rates himself according to a detailed questionnaire...