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...Dominican priest, recently transplanted to the U.S., whose earlier books of memoirs and stories (One Sky to Share, Golden Goat) have had considerable success (TIME, Aug. 11; Nov. 24). His purpose in writing this one was to bring back to life the Magdalene, "la Femme coupèe en morceaux-the woman hacked into bits by modern exegetes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: La Femme Coupee | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...more easily translated morceaux choisis is a list of mourners whom the ex-President has requested to attend his funeral: "Jean, Millerand's son; the Unknown Soldier; Maman Canti [canti, name given to profiteering junk-dealers]; Mme. Vichère [composed of vie, life, chère, dear?high cost of living] ; l'Abbesse du Franc [Abbesse means abbess, but it is here a play on the English word abyss; hence, the abyss of the franc, an allusion to the franc's tremendous fall in the Spring (TIME, Mar. 17) when Millerand was President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Paris Wit | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...purpose. Serious? Death, Villainy, Madness, the Grave here find their own. The soldier of the Legion is dying in Algiers, Sir Ralph the Rover visits the Inchcape Rock, "Charge Chester, charge!" "'We are lost!' the captain shouted as he stag gered down the stairs." Less well known morceaux deal with Blood (in quantity), with Wicked Atheists, with the Last Few Remarks of Pious Children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reciters | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

FRENCH 1A. - Freeborn's Morceaux Choisis d' Alphonse Daudet will be begun today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Official Notice. | 4/2/1895 | See Source »

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Morceaux, choisis, is to be read in full, outside, before the mid-year examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Official Notice. | 11/7/1893 | See Source »

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