Word: moli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whiz Kid. Brown-eyed Barbara, by facility with word and thought, has won herself a reputation in several careers. Into her expensive education went samplings from a convent at her native Felixstowe, the Lycée Molière and the Sorbonne, Jugenheim and Oxford (Somerville College), where she took first-class honors in "Modern Greats."* She set her sights on opera, switched to lecturing (in a clear soprano) when she decided that she would never be a topflight singer...
...France's rickety stairs, to the second-floor conference chamber, hobbled some two dozen venerable French "Immortals"-scholars with "glorious pasts and no futures." There, amid marble busts of bygone Academicians, they heard an earnest harangue from "Perpetual Secretary" Georges Duhamel. In its past the Academy had spurned Molière, Daudet, Balzac, Zola, many another great nonconformist; why not, demanded Novelist Duhamel, seize this magnificent occasion to elect such latter-day greats as Louis Aragon, Roger Martin du Gard, André Gide, André Malraux, Paul Claudel...
Undiminfshed Fame. Nevertheless, "Wordsworth's fame stays undiminished. . . ." Matthew Arnold, good critic and better poet, ranked Wordsworth just below the greatest poets: "Dante, Shakespeare, Molière, Milton, even Goethe, are altogether larger and more splendid luminaries in the poetical heaven over Wordsworth. But I know not where else, among the moderns, we are to find his superiors." As the modern skies grow darker, the comets sizzle into oblivion, and the novas burn themselves out, the body of Wordsworth's best work shines with the steadiness of those far suns whose light reaches us over unimaginable distances...
Seventeenth-Century Moliére (real name: Jean Baptiste Poquelin) might have been a little startled at what has happened to his doltish M. Jourdain, who was already an outrageous enough butt. Everybody swindled and snickered at him-the dancing masters and fencing masters hired to teach him the graces; the count who was to present him at court; the marquise with whom he craved a modish liaison. But Moliére's butt-who suddenly learned with rapture that he had been speaking prose all his life-was a passably solid character. When Zany Clark gets through with...
Most of Dostoevsky's short novels have been out of print for decades. This collection includes: The Gambler and The Double (two remarkable studies of pathological personalities) ; The Friend of the Family ("justly famous," says Mann, "for . . . a comic creation . . . rivaling Shakespeare and Molière"); The Eternal Husband (which creates the "eeriest effects" out of a "ludicrous cuckold['s] . . . malicious anguish"); Uncle's Dream (a Dickensian farce); the famed Notes from Underground ("an awe-and terror-inspiring example of ... sympathy and . . . frightful insight...