Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MONTAIGNE: A BIOGRAPHY by Donald M. Frame. 408 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...enough. The Essays were the testament, as Biographer Frame says, of "A reasonable, truthful, reflective, self-possessed man of good will, loving life, convinced of the importance of the body, the legitimacy of pleasure, and the goodness of happiness." The age of skepticism-in the best sense of the word-can be said to have begun with this self-assured, self-centered man, and it is not over...
Scrambled Parts. Unfortunately, Frame is not equal to the task of writing a definitive biography. As professor of French at Columbia University, he has made Montaigne his life's study, and his translation of the Essays is the best since the Florio translation of 1603 and infinitely more readable than that classic antique. But this book does not so much define Montaigne as scramble him. It is as if someone given nothing but the picture of an assembled car and its disassembled parts had set to work, knowing only that each part has to go somewhere. The result...
...arrested last Aug. 14 while picketing three stores in nearby Fort Deposit that allegedly discriminate against Negroes. Jailed in Hayneville, the workers were abruptly released without bond a week later, on the same day that their cases were transferred to federal court. Shortly afterward, in front of the red frame Cash Store two blocks from the courthouse, the two men of the cloth were felled by two shotgun blasts. Daniels died instantly; Morrisroe was critically wounded in the back...
...they're slaughtered. This crazy scientist thinks he can rule the world with the ring, which like Superman's costume, is made of an indestructable material entirely unknown to man. The tiger is just there for laughs. But nothing can shake our boys, and we know from the first frame that their version of the British way of life will triumph...