Word: lido
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emphasis, then, is to be on increased speaking and oral work in elementary classes first, and then later in the intermediate courses. Raimundo Lido, professor of Romance Languages and Literature, agrees that more oral work is vitally needed in elementary teaching. "The epitome of reading is speaking the language; from there you must go on to the ultimate step in facile writing...
Next day on the Lido Brigitte turned out to roll on the beach at the photographers' commands-until the photographers began to scrap among themselves for vantage points. Unperturbed, Brigittt insisted that she was very happy to be a "universal sex symbol." She also ventured an opinion on Charles de Gaulle: "He s a bigger man than I am in every...
...full of second-hand garbage they can't see what's real if they try. They're the night club crew. Ten minutes in Chartres, an hour in the Louvre, and all day in some sidewalk cafe (where they can see all the other Americans). They're the Lido boys, who travel first class and stay at the Ritz. The double-scotch-with-ice bunch that finds its Europe in a guide book. They take the tours and chat with friends, all cameras and golf hats and sport shirts; but they can't see further than their sun glasses...
...Paris Trib, the portentous triviality of the questions offered an irresistible cue for lampoonery. In a question-and-answer column resembling the transcript of a real-life White House press conference, a presidential spokesman identified only as "Jim" started out by apologizing to reporters for arriving late from the Lido, a Paris cabaret famed for its comely, nude show girls. Getting down to business, Buchwald's Jim fidgeted through a set of spoof Q's and A's. Samples...
...Redron's eye lights up when he speaks of what it means to his country: "Just wait till we get the first oil to France. To help us celebrate, I'll get the Paris office to send us the Blue Bell girls from the Lido...