Word: marcel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ages, the new St. John's Abbey and University will be a vivid testimony to the way the life of the spirit leaps from century to century and is contemporary in each. It is being designed by one of the brightest-burning lights of modern architecture-Hungarian-born Marcel Breuer, 51, who learned his disciplined economy of line and plane at Walter Gropius' famed Bauhaus in the '20s, and developed it into one of the most flexible and creative styles on U.S. drawing boards...
...experimental writers of the early 20th century were men and women with a high sense of mission. Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf-each sought a new way to get some of the juice of life on to the printed page. Their imitators have chiefly proved that most of them are. in a broad sense, inimitable...
...Yvon Delbos. 5. Marcel Naegelen. 3. Rene Coty...
While Sir Hugh laid wreaths and visited museums, some other travelers inconspicuously departed from Haiti. Senator Marcel Hérard, a political foe of Magloire, who had eluded arrest three weeks earlier by having himself smuggled into the Mexican embassy rolled up in a rug, received a safe-conduct from the President and flew off to Mexico. Three lesser oppositionists, like Hérard charged with plotting to overthrow the government, left the Panamanian embassy and headed for Cuba. But 25 others, caught by the cops, still languished in jail...
...most novelists, murder is a springboard for mystery, terror or tragedy. For Marcel Aymeé, it is an occasion for comedy. Satirist Aymeé is less interested in the gruesome murder that is the source of The Secret Stream than in the characters of the French provincials who live along its banks. The novel is full of double exposures-images of provincial types as they appear to be and, superimposed, images of them as they presumably...