Word: noir
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...Overture, "Domino Noir," Auber...
...Overture, "Le Domino Noir," Auber...
...Rouge et Noir' is a reminiscence of an alleged experience. It is good, the reminiscence, we mean, and there is the atmosphere of Paris about it all. There is not much in the plot, to be sure, but the descriptions make up for that lack...
...valueless; and whenever I breathe the names of the philosophers I have been so laboriously mastering (?) for the last three years, whether it is Noah Porter or Descartes, whether among my friends or in the "causeries de has bleus" which I attend, I am immediately confronted with the bete noir of Herbert Spencer. Like Banquo's ghost it will not down, but still provokes me with its taunting mystery...