Word: frans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EDDIE KASKO AWARD goes to MIT coach Fran O'Brien for leaving his starter Mike Royal in against Harvard through an inning, during which 11 Crimson batters faced the Engineer ace and banged out six hits for six runs to break the game open. And no one was even warming in the bullpen...
...cold civil war," as one Paris editor described France's fiercely contested presidential-election campaign, continued right down to a bitter end. At times, as last Sunday's election approached, the two contenders seemed more interested in hurling insults than in dealing with the issues. Socialist François Mitterrand, running with Communist backing, accused Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing of being the tool of "these princes, these dukes, these millionaires [who] have not had a new-idea in 15 years." The patrician Giscard in turn scourged his left-wing opponent for running "a violent...
...from the $100 per person registration and what was paid to each panelist? I thought academic meetings held in tax-exempt buildings among people who get annual salaries, as professors, have to be free? Or is the male white academic buddy system beginning to pay each other quite openly? Fran P. Hosken
When Bonjour Tristesse appeared in 1954, Françoise Sagan became a 19-year-old member of le tout Paris and an instant international celebrity. The world soon learned that she drank a lot of Scotch, loved to play chemin defer and drive Jaguars in her bare feet. The characters in her subsequent books, among them such bestsellers as Aimez-Vous Brahms? and A Certain Smile, tended to be beautiful, languid, bent on self-destruction. They were often driven by pangs of ennui, whose meaning in French implies more cosmic pain than its English translation ("boredom") can possibly convey...
...life is "truly unacceptable to any civilized person." One possibly inadvertent revelation is notable. The book shows a constant, dismal preoccupation with the author's public image. Like her characters, she is unvaryingly selfconscious, whether gloomy or skittish ("Tm raving and talking nonsense, but so what!"). Early on, Françoise Sagan confides: "I even doubt whether I'll show this to my publisher." There was merit in that doubt...