Word: litte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel about his performance was his willingness to save the Assembly's face by entering into the parliamentary game. He answered questions skillfully. When one right-wing speaker compared him to Robespierre, who started the Terror and in the end died by it, De Gaulle (according to Figaro Littéeraire) turned to Minister of State Guy Mollet and murmured, "Curious. I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself...
Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry, Michael Litt, tutor in Biochemical Sciences, and Julius Marmur, research fellow in Biology and Chemistry, have used sound waves in studying desoxyribose nucleic solid, believed to be "the essential hereditary material of all living organisms, except some viruses...
Onetime stripper and sometime Littérateur Gypsy Rose Lee took a brief critical look at the sorry modern state of her old profession: "There's a great sameness to it all now. The routines of the young girls all look the same. The wardrobes look the same-they all look like they've been sewn by one seamstress. Good burlesque must be for both men and women. You can't appeal to only one element, and the presence of women makes for a much better audience-they make men laugh more...
...other Jews, in a German concentration camp. To fill out the chronicle of her short life, West German Publisher S. Fischer last year assigned Author Ernst Schnabel to search the German and Dutch archives and interview survivors of the camps who might have known her. In Paris Le Figaro Littéraire printed excerpts from Schnabel's findings, to be published as a book in the U.S. this fall...
...probation for cutting classes, living beyond his mother's means (his father had died in 1920), Cozzens got a leave of absence at the end of his sophomore year, and never went back to Harvard's vine leaves. The school rewarded its prodigal son with an honorary Litt. D. degree in 1952 (Cozzens says he accepted it only to please his mother, who died a few months later). Nowadays, on rare trips to New York, he likes to lunch at the Harvard Club, "where everybody acts morose and nobody looks at anybody...