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...almost anything. However, there are hundreds of French words imbedded in the English language for which there are no substitutes-even the politician may find it hard to oppose the tongue that makes him élite and his wife chic, his views avantgarde, his opponent naïve. Who would want to unscramble omelette, anglicize soufflé or advertise crêpes suzette as pancakes Suzy? A tête á tête is not eyeball to eyeball; savoir-faire is considerably more than know-how. And what would Henry Kissinger do without détente...
...Emperor's appetite for eminence, the authors write: "History was for him, as for Carlyle, a worship and rosary of heroes, especially those who guided na tions or molded empires. He loved Plutarch even more than Euclid; he breathed the passions of those ancient patriots, he drank the blood of those his toric battles...
Last week Sihanouk - who remains, in his words, Cambodia's royal "but not royalist" titular head of state - arrived in New York to address the United Na tions General Assembly. In his 45-minute speech, he ritually denounced "United States imperialism" but also praised those Americans who had opposed the U.S. involvement in Indochina. Later he discussed the problems of postwar Cambodia with TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter...
...balladeer of the British Empire, a hearty fellow whose prose as well as his poetry thumped as cheerfully as a barroom song-when, that is, he wasn't spinning animal tales for children. Then, in a famous essay, The Kipling That Nobody Read, Edmund Wilson updated this naïf into a modish vision of mid-20th century tragedy...
Among several casts, the singing of Bari tone Mazurok (Onegin) and Tenor Vla dimir Atlantov (Lensky) is solidly sono rous, and as Tatiana, Tamara Milashki-na sings with a full lyric voice that is gratifyingly free of the shrill vibrato heard from so many Russian sopranos...