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...start again, in the optative voice, with you--hypocrite lecteur and all that. Why are you here? Even if you embrace liberalism, espouse it, have little liberals, wasn't Harvard a conservative engagement...

Author: By Peter Nohrnberg, | Title: Bedazzled Gerbils or Distant Astronomers | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

...hoped that Alex de Jonge's book will help to dispel the poet's legend and resurrect his verse for a wider audience. But that hope, too, may be a drug. In which case, Baudelaire still wins, screaming over the gulf of a century: "Hypocrite lecteur-mon semblable -mon frère!" (Hypocrite reader-my double-my brother!). Melvin Maddocks

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anatomy of Addiction | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...mollusk known as Meleagrina), sketches of local characters, and wordy, impressionistic evocations of the Breton countryside. At such moments a reader's attention may well wander, but for the most part Author Clark holds him with wit and verbal polish. It is the process known as tromper le lecteur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ostrea Edulis & Others | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...Prose, Moralist Smith found the form. It was these lapidary fragments which he called trivia, and in which he condensed the discernments, bafflements, exultations, wry exposures to society and to eternity, and shy self-revelations of the Smithian soul, which in Baudelaire's words is "vous, hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère"-"you, hypocritic reader, my likeness, my brother." All Trivia is Smith's amused comments on life, heightened by his sense of the precariousness of living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Umbrella against Fate | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...persons interested to attend a meeting in Emerson A at 2.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The places over which this committee has supervision are the Fellowship of the French Ministry of Public Instruction, a scholarship at the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, Paris, and a position as Lecteur d'Anglais at the University of Lyons and at the University of Bordeaux. J. Weare 1G.B., R. Withington '06, and R. Bosc, Fellow of the Cercle Francais, members of the committee and past lecteurs, will explain fully the nature of the work in each place, the special opportunities offered, and the requisites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Fellowship and Scholarships | 3/10/1911 | See Source »

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