Word: nous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...18th Century Man," "Ceramic Treasures from Boston's Collections Past and Present," "The Sublime and the Beautiful: Images of Women in American Sculpture," "A Tour of the British Isles" and through Aug. 12, "The 18th Century in France: Paintings and Furniture." Film special: Aug. 7 at 7 p.m., "A Nous la Liberte," musical satire on mechanization. Nonmembers $2; members $1.50; no museum admission charge...
...some soul searching in Southern California; a woman writer with the disconcerting habit of throwing her voice at crucial emotional moments; a dim-bulb movie star and her producer paramour, who keeps his wealth in a sock drawer and begins too many sentences with the phrase entre nous: these are the featured players in New York Disc Jockey Jonathan Schwartz's resonant first novel. At a glance, it may seem another tour of Joan Didion's empty existential horizons -damaged people failing to communicate in a dry land. But Schwartz's central character, Paul Kramer, renders...
Symposium on Ancient Medicine--Therapeia: Doctor and Patient in Ancient Medicine. Sponsored by Greek and Latin. Lecture by Ruth Padel, Lecturer in classics, Oxford and Cambridge Universities on "A Doctor in the Nous: Greek Perceptions of Human Beings which create the Doctor's Way," 10:15-12 a.m., Room 264, Science Center...
...Gallic heritage of Quebec, as well as that of some 1 million other French-speaking Canadians in other provinces,* can and should be done within a tolerant, officially bilingual Canada. For Lévesque, the solution is a homogeneous, independent state where Quebecois can be maîtres chez nous (masters in our own house...
...delights in Freudian analysis of typographical slips of the finger, and points out tiresome puns at every opportunity. He even plays word golf, like Nabokov's Kinbote, only not as well: Golf, gold, good, gods, nods, nous, gnus, anus, Amos. "Eight strokes with some cheating and a one putt." It is as if Updike has been suppressing all this game-playing for years as self-indulgent and inappropriate, and now he has discovered the perfect way out--he can pin it on Marshfield in the name of character development...