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Mary was born during the years that "M. and Mme. Ezra Pound" sponsored concerts in an attempt to create an artistic renaissance in Italy--an effort that stretched from 1925 until Pound's arrest in 1945 by the American liberators of Italy...
...consist of three TV and three radio broadcasts. Previously planned visits to the countryside were scrubbed for security reasons, but were unnecessary anyway in the absence of any opposition. Saigon, meanwhile, hummed with exotic speculation about the shape of things to come. One opposition daily even wryly suggested that Mme. Thieu had threatened suicide if her husband did not resign. The newspaper was promptly seized...
...true literary pilgrim starts his visit at Mme. Benoist's pátisserie on the Place du Marché, where he begins his evocation of the past by biting into the shell-shaped confection called a madeleine. Ten years ago, the bubbly Mme. Benoist sold only four madeleines a week. "In the past three weeks," she says, "we've sold 1,000. We had to hire another apprentice." Many of those who buy the little cakes (at 12? apiece) are foreigners, for Proust's masterwork has been translated into 17 languages, including Finnish, Japanese and Serbo-Croatian...
...practically existed on café au lait), sleeping during the day (with the aid of veronal), Proust rarely left his bed in a cork-lined Paris room during the last 15 years of his life. On Aunt Elisabeth's bedside table, gracing her tea saucer, is one of Mme. Benoist's madeleines, carefully wrapped in plastic and replaced every few days...
...route to an ice cream parlor in Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera one day last summer, a doctor's wife named Josette Varinet, 30, discovered that she and her two children were taking the wrong route. Mme. Varinet began backing her Peugeot out of the one-way street when suddenly a big black car drove in, and its owner began assailing her with a wordy sermon on the failings of female drivers. To that Josette replied: "Je vous emmerde," an excremental expletive...