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...Manheim has been outraged by the praise lavished on the new English version of Remembrance of Things Past. Manheim, who has translated Proust's letters, says, "The first translator, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, was a little awkward and a little mistaken, but he did a "marvelous job. Now Terence Kilmartin has altered Moncrieff, and not well." Manheim is most derisive about one Kilmartin method of cor rection: "The way he fixed up a passage was to leave it in French. Problem solved...
...anyone is investing heavily in Connecticut Turnpike tokens with the idea of using them in the New York turnstiles, they should be very careful because they won't be usable there soon," mint president David F. Kilmartin said Tuesday
MEMOIRS OF HOPE: RENEWAL AND ENDEAVOR by CHARLES DE GAULLE translated by TERENCE KILMARTIN 392 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...often, however, the majestic alexandrine sonorities of De Gaulle's written French sound awkward and even unintelligible in Terence Kilmartin's translation. The American publishers have also neglected to alter Anglicisms that will baffle many U.S. readers - for example, "council flats" for public housing. Most of all, though, De Gaulle has simply not done himself justice. He writes: "Beyond all the or deals and obstacles, and perhaps be yond the grave, that which is legitimate may one day be legalized, that which is rightful may in the end be proved right." Events have already proved De Gaulle right...
...GIRLS by Henry de Montherlant, translated by Terence Kilmartin. 639 pages. Harper...