Word: mon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anything. Debussy succinctly defined his approach to musical composition with his reply to the registrar at the Paris Conservatory after that solemn traditionalist became exasperated with the student's habit of making up weird chords What rule are you following? demanded the registrar. Said Debussy: "Mon plisesir." Debussy's pleasure, almost from the time he entered the conservatory at the age of ten, was to break most of the accepted rules of composition. His music was full of dissonances, wildly assorted chords, conflicting rhythmic patterns...
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...following the woman-it is almost impossible to tell because he, like she, seems in no hurry. The director (Michelangelo Antonioni? Alain Resnais? Federico Fellini? Francois Truffaut?) is definitely in no hurry. The movie (La Notte? L'Av-ventura? La Dolce Vita? Hiroshima, Mon Amour?) is 50 minutes long already, and still the woman is walking, the man is walking, and the only real involvement anywhere is occurring among people, who are not walking but sitting, scattered throughout the theater, nodding and telling each other how real, how honest, how truly artful...
...Union may never become a true Common Market airline. Britain's BOAC and BEA have announced that they will not join even if Britain enters the Com mon Market. The Netherlands' KLM, which walked out of the negotiations three years ago in disgust over its allotted share of the revenues, now seems anxious to jump back in-but on its own terms. But even if only the present four lines join Air Union, their reduced costs will give them an advantage in competition with U.S. overseas airlines. This argument is sure to be made when...