Word: marcel
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...DIED. Marcel Moyse, 95, celebrated French flutist who premiered works by Stravinsky and Ravel, wrote more than 30 comprehensive books on flute technique and was an influential teacher into his 90s. He passed on the playing style of the great 19th century French School to several of today's virtuosi, among them France's Jean-Pierre Rampal, who called Moyse "the king," and Ireland's James Galway, who claimed him as "my guru" in Brattleboro...
...background. In 1963 the Second Vatican Council, seeking to give the laity a greater role in the liturgy, authorized a sweeping reform of worship that included prayers in the vernacular and a rite in which the priest faced his congregation. For many conservatives, most notably the dissident French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the new Mass, even though it can be said in Latin, became a rallying point for defiance of the council's reforms...
...therefore wish to approach Swann in Love or The Bostonians undemandingly, almost as one would an antique show, browsing and ruminative but not expecting to make powerful emotional connections with the objects on view. On that level, Volker Schlondorffs lightly heated rearrangement and compression of approximately one-fifteenth of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past is altogether more beguiling than James Ivory's attenuated version of one of Henry James' liveliest long novels...
...Green's Jim Sapienza set a course record in the men's meet, clocking 28:26.8 over the 4.8-mile route. Marcel Gauthier of Dartmouth followed on Sapienza's heels...
...retreats. It's the same old story, told this time with more talent. In the venerable tradition of films like Endless Love, Volker Schlondorf's latest is a tale of obsession. But where Zeferelli's version was a superficial skimming of a very good novel. Schlondorf's adaptation renders Marcel Proust some justice...