Word: french
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Interviewed in his Emerson Hall study yesterday, Nicholas S. Timasheff, Lecturer in Sociology and former Professor at the Franco-Russian Institute of Political Science in Paris, stated that Anglo-French policy threw Russia inevitably into the arms of Germany...
...ripping vigor and angularity of this type of movement which removes Roussel somewhat from the spirit of the traditional French school. His ruggedness does not fit in with the extreme subtlety and delicacy of composers like Debussy. Ravel, and even Honegger. The difference in style is not surprising when one considers Russell's musical background. Though he spent much of his life in Paris, he was not a member of the Conservatoire, where almost all French musicians of the first rank have received their training. He was drawn farther away from traditional lines by the exotic influence of the music...
Appointed, Jeff arrives in Washington with a crate of carrier pigeons and a flock of unfledged ideas. First is to hop a rubberneck bus, inspect Daniel Chester French's noble statue of Lincoln. But when his hardboiled Secretary Saunders (Jean Arthur) tells him why the gang sent him to Washington, dumbellicose Jeff really goes to town on Boss Taylor. Framed on misconduct charges, Jeff filibusters all night by reading to bored, sleepy Senators from the Declaration of Independence, .the U. S. Constitution, the Second Epistle to the Corinthians. At dawn he wins...
Theory. The failures of Marxism in practice argue fallacies in theory. The first of these, according to Parkes, is the idea that the working class alone can, or will, seize political power. The modern working class and the capitalist class are not independent as were the French bourgeoisie and aristocracy before the French Revolution; they are interdependent parts of the same economic organism...
...blue jacket and forage cap, affectionately nicknamed "Culo de Hierro" (Iron Arse), Bolívar would suddenly break the tedium of a march by challenging his companions to outjump him. He liked to dance with female camp followers around the campfire, would break off abruptly to dictate (in Spanish, French or English) his fast, polished sentences to a secretary. He pardoned his venal aides, refused to feather his own nest, praised his generals unstintedly. He deliberately resigned as Supreme Chief in order to discourage dictatorship...