Word: moli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those 17-hour-day high school students. Tonight's homework: algebra, study for French test, memorize French dialogue, read a chapter on Molière and answer 16 questions, study for history test, write essay on Brotherhood Week, answer four history essay questions, write ballad for English and composition for Creative Writing. Then I am supposed to have time to work on long-range assignments: reading four books in two weeks, working on a term paper and several compositions. Good grief...
...pulp vats and printing presses, surrounded by hundreds of bills drying on polyester slabs. For 16 years he had worked ten hours a day in a lO-ft.-sq. cave doing the jobs of seven skilled technicians, turned out a crackling $1,000,000 worth of multicolored likes of Molière and Victor Hugo...
Still, she was trained in the classic tradition of the French theater, with its insistence that the whole gamut of roles, from Molière to Montherlant, be mastered, and that the thousand niceties of acting, from beau geste to rhétorique, become ingrained. She has no patience with actors whose concern exceeds their craft: "Burt Lancaster! Before he can pick up an ashtray, he discusses his motivation for an hour or two. You want to say just pick up the ashtray and shut...
TARTUFFE. Lincoln Center's interpretation of Moliére's comedy has too much bounce and not enough bite, but Michael O'Sullivan's Tartuffe is a surrealistic and fantastic acting creation...
...displayed a preference for literary men over generals and politicians-Voltaire last year replaced Richelieu on the 10-franc note, and Racine replaced Henri IV on the 50. But Frenchmen are now complaining that the new 100-franc Corneille note is confusingly similar to the 500 note, which shows Molière. Nonsense, replied a harassed bank spokesman, Molière's curls are much fuller than Corneille...