Word: moring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pained Penguin. But Spain, Franco and Buñuel now seem equally aged, if not exactly mellowed. The director and his French wife maintain homes in Mexico and Madrid. Both of his sons dabble in the arts, Raphael as a sculptor, Juan Luis as an experimental-film maker. This fall...
What can the Age of Reason possibly have to say to the Age of Aquarius? Certainly Voltaire, with his brisk faith that enlightened common sense could solve all problems, is hardly the voice to which we tune our orgiastic electric guitars. Quite the contrary. Emancipated from religious "superstition," living in...
For the last two decades of his life, Voltaire lived in celebrated retreat with his niece at Ferney. Chronically grumbling about his health, he wrote prodigiously in six languages, expanded his farms, established watchmaking and lacemaking workshops, and built more than a hundred houses as a kind of 18th century...
In the end, we are more likely to read Pascal, whom Voltaire hated, or Rousseau, who hated Voltaire, than Voltaire himself, who lives today mainly through Candide. In this black-comedy response to the evils of history, he seems closest to the modern reader, as in his conclusion: Cultivate your...
As labyrinthine as the author's best-selling Kremlin Letter, it is set mostly in Central Europe late in World War II. The adversaries are a depraved lot of American military and a handful of German exiles-who all want to beat the Allies at setting up the postwar...