Word: les
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orpheus, a fine, sturdy figure of a man, wearing a beige and green costume, and carrying a gilded lyre. In the orchestra the noble trombones swelled to the point where Orpheus would sing of his decision to seek Eurydice in Hades. Four thousand guests at France's Aix-les-Bains music festival, including Italy's ex-King Umberto and ex-Queen Marie José, leaned forward. The hero was about to make his impassioned plea: "Give her back to me, you powers of Hell!" Instead, the audience heard his hoarse shout in Italian-accented French:"I refuse...
...Russians sat stock still. Foreign Minister Pinay muttered audibly: "Il les a eus" (He got them). As Ike paused"for the translation of his remarks, there was a clap of thunder and the lights went out. "I didn't mean to turn the lights out," said Ike with a laugh. The translators droned on in the gloom...
...pinning its hopes of combatting the African snail on another recently introduced predator snail, which eats the African snail alive. Theoretically, when the predator has consumed all the African snails it will die of a lack of food, and the snails will vanish. As a practical matter, however, les escargots will probably be with us indefinitely...
...command more attention than politicians or priest Roman Catholic Novelist François Mauriac, in Le Figaro, urges French youth to a more dynamic Christian socialism. Existentialist Merleau-Ponty attacks Sartre for his latter-day allegiance to Stalinism in L'Express, is answered by Simone de Beauvoir in Les Temps Modernes...
Accepted Symbol. "On a less dramatic level," says Les Temps Modernes, "one liked the personality of Shane, that nostalgic outlaw of a Racine-like modesty, who troubled for a moment the wife of a farmer . . . The search for the everyday, true incident is hard to reconcile with the epic violence of the westerns, and here again there has been a radical change: the superman has been superseded by a 'new type' of cowboy, who hesitates, who suffers and who is afraid." Examples: The Ox-Bow Incident, Gun fighters, The Treasure of Sierra Madre...