Word: jestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years has seen everything from 17th century mannerists to Britain's Pre-Raphaelites brought back into vogue. But one group-the 19th century French Salon painters, including such luminaries as Cabanel, Meissonier, Bonnat, Baudry and Rochegrosse-has seemed beyond redemption. Until last week when, that is, half in jest, Paris' avant-garde Galerie Breteau dragged out 20 paintings by one of the most ac claimed academicians and popular artists of his time, a man whose very name was an epithet to the impressionists: William-Adolphe Bouguereau...
...Work Load. It was a member of Apman's own church council who suggested the merger with St. Margaret's. "That way we'd have two ministers to split the work load and twice as much money coming in," he said, more or less in jest. Apman tried out the idea on St. Margaret's pastor, the Rev. Paul Christensen, who agreed. Eventually, both ministers decided that it would be best if Holy Cross's Lutherans become Episcopalians. The councils of the two churches then drew up a formal merger plan. If all goes well...
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...Douglas were 15 years younger, he would indeed be all but unbeatable. But with age, he has lost some of his zing. Half in jest, Percy remarked: "One thing that bothers me about this is that it's my friends who keep telling me I shouldn't run, and my enemies who tell me I should...
...French don't care what they do, actually," remarked Bernard Shaw's Professor Higgins, "as long as they pronounce it properly." The jest was of the blunt Anglo-Saxon variety, but it sums up the reverence that every cultivated Frenchman feels toward the language of Voltaire and Racine. Since the war, it has been a matter of grave concern that the international community no longer shares this high regard. Gone are the days when Tolstoy's Russian aristocrats conversed and the Congress of Vienna convened-in French. Today France is waging a discreet campaign to reinstate...