Word: french
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...naming seven recipients of its coveted prizes last week, the Nobel Committee remained faithful to tradition. The judges honored the 13th American in 17 years with the economics award. As usual, U.S. researchers dominated the sciences. In literature, the gold medal went to a French experimental writer, whose murky novels are no longer in vogue. The winners and their credentials...
...been unofficially mentioned as a runner-up for nearly two decades. So when the Swedish Academy last week finally awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature to French Novelist Claude Simon, 72, the news seemed both , inevitable and a little outdated. Simon had a period of modest renown during the 1950s and early '60s. Along with Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Michel Butor, he became a chief exponent of the French nouveau roman, a form of fiction that rigorously questioned traditional narrative devices. Reality, so the Gallic logic went, is not easy to read. Simon has proved himself just...
...Professor of Romance Languages Wilga Rivers, who advised Teel on his Ph.D. dissertation, said that "he was never sitting around. He became fascinated with the learning of literate and non-literate people." For example, Rivers said, Teel studied the Haitian Creole language to better understand how illiterate Haitians learn French...
...service's end, after French poetry, an old spirtual, the second movement of Dvorak's "American Quartet," and a period of silence, everyone joined in singing "Amazing Grace" led by the Kuumba Singers...