Word: michel
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HENRY ADAMS: THE MAJOR PHASE, by Ernest Samuels. The end volume of an imposing life and literary history that penetrates the cynicism of Adams' later years and traces the emotional and cerebral ferment that resulted in the austere Education and the moving Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres...
Godard muddles an already tricky narrative with personal mannerisms and outright irrelevancies. Brigitte Bardot is a sullen enigma as the wife, and Michel Piccoli as the husband is merely opaque. Hollywood's Jack Palance makes the producer seem to be none other than Jack Palance...
HENRY ADAMS: THE MAJOR PHASE, by Ernest Samuels. Covering the last 30 years of Adams' life, this final volume of Samuels' massive biography tells of the people and thinking that influenced the historian in the writing of his greatest books, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres and the classic Education of Henry Adams...
HENRY ADAMS: THE MAJOR PHASE, by Ernest Samuels. Covering the last 30 years of Adams' life, this final volume of Samuels' massive biography tells of the people and thinking that influenced Adams in the writing of his greatest books, Mont St. Michel and Chartres and the classic Education of Henry Adams...
...Elizabeth Cameron, the vivacious wife of the senior Senator from Pennsylvania. "Life is not worth living," Adams once admitted, "unless you are attached to someone." The warmth of their relationship encouraged him to believe that the figure of the Mother is the core of Christianity. In Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, he credited the 12th century adoration of the Virgin with inspiring the building of the great cathedrals and with giving man happiness he has not had since...