Word: moi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record-company offices in Paris, workmen found a battered box containing 45 master records (78s), pressed between 1940 and 1942 by Chanteuse Edith Piaf, who died a year ago at 47. Made in her prime, before illness and alcohol dulled her voice, the records include melodies, such as Fais-Moi Valser and Le Vagabond, that "the Sparrow" made famous onstage but was miracle," never said a known to Philips have cut. executive. "It's "We a don't know how they got there. Perhaps a technician had to dump them in the Occupation. Perhaps they were even considered...
...VIVE MOI! by Sean O'Faolain. It took this Irish novelist 30 years to come to terms with his provincial Irish upbringing; in an engaging autobiography, he records the dilemma of a man forever "impaled on one green corner of the universe...
...VIVE MOI!, By Sean O'Faolain. The Irish novelist and essayist writes his autobiography with a candor that few writers can quite achieve in cold type. The result is a fever chart of an overworked Catholic conscience, and a collage of the scenes of an Irish childhood...
...people. Deadly hunters with crossbows and poisoned arrows, the more than 500,000 montagnards live in the vast "high plateau" that extends across one-third of the country. They are darker and tougher than the lowland Vietnamese, who consider the montagnards racially inferior, and scornfully refer to them as moi, or baboons. To protect them from land-grabbing lowlanders, French colonial administrators in effect made the central highlands a tribal reservation. When the French pulled out in 1954, lowlanders once again drove the montagnards ever deeper into the jungle-and into the arms of the Communist Viet Cong...
...VIVE MOI! by Sean O'Faolain. 374 pages. Little, Brown...