Word: manor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Here's the action: maid Celestine (Moreau) arrives in Normandy from Paris, to work at a manor. Immediately begins a tableau of lives ruled and twisted by the sexual impulse. The lady of the manor is conspicuously frigid, her husband (brilliantly acted by Michel Piccoli) comically virile. "Watch out for that guv." Celestine is warned, "with him: one shot--POW!--a baby...
...book contains fifteen public speeches which demonstrate conclusively how bad a public speaker Faulkner was. I am convinced that the girls in the graduating class of Pine Manor J.C. in 1953 can scarcely recall today Faulkner's extended metaphysical diatribe on God and the Devil. Aside from his widely-celebrated speech upon acceptance of the Nobel Prize and his speeches at the University of Virginia (already collected in Faulkner in the University), the speeches are too brief and dull for publication...
...mildly surprised to find that he could sometimes be straightforward and lucid, as in his Nobel Prize Speech of 1950 ("I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail"). Far less inspiring, however, was Faulkner's commencement address to the 1953 graduating class at the Pine Manor Junior College in Wellesley, Mass. The talk is so gauze-wrapped with mystical abstractions about man and his condition that the poor students must have stumbled away from it in a stupor. The essays, too, are recommended only for veterans of the quagmires who may still have their hip boots...
...mile-long driveway through fields full of pheasants leads to the 365-room Tudor mansion of Lancaster stone in the Lincolnshire countryside, 100 miles from London. Inside Harlaxton Manor, the glow of a 15-foot crystal chandelier reflects from marble floors in a 134-year-old room, once a Jesuit chapel. And on the great staircase, a leggy young blonde from Stanford University remarks: "Gee, nobody but nobody gets to live in a place like this...
Stanford students spend two quarters abroad, take a full 16-credit course load. They concentrate mainly on humanities, taught by Stanford teachers, and languages, taught by foreigners. At Harlaxton Manor, they will also hear top British professors lecture on British technology, social change, politics and education. They pay their regular Stanford board and tuition, plus half their plane fare (the university pays the rest) and about $70 for two field trips...