Word: imperiale
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Much in the imperial Gaullist manner, Nixon granted a rare preInauguration interview to the Associated Press's Saul Pett. The interview, which Nixon insisted be confined to questions about his mood and personality, proved to be revealing, especially about the President's post-election feelings. Said Nixon: "After...
Blair went to Eton, had an undistinguished but adequate record, and, needing a career, went to Burma, at the time a part of the British Indian Empire. For five years he was an Assistant Superintendent in the Indian Imperial Police. He came back to Europe and for another five years...
One implication of her act of protest is that she would gladly have read her poetry a before "a non-sexist" Signet Society: the chances, however, of finding such a society within the bastion of bourgeois aesthetics are slum. The capitalist literary elite is about as receptive to ideological liberation...
Even without armed divisions, the Soviet presence in Bulgaria is exceptionally high-powered. The Kremlin's emissary to Sofia, Vladimir Bazovsky, acts more like an imperial proconsul than an ambassador. Bazovsky's staff includes high-ranking "advisers" to the Bulgarian armed forces and secret police. Such supervision seems...
A dictée, as every French schoolchild learns to his sorrow, is a dictation exercise full of traps for the unwary. Prosper Mérimée, author of the original Carmen, once offered a 248-word specimen as a test at the imperial court in Compiègne...