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...this work the playwright drew on a number of sources ("Je prends mon bien ou je le trouve," he was fond of saying), including Aristophanes, Plautus, Boccaccio, and an earlier farce of his own. Added significance lies in the fact that Moliere was at the time having marital troubles of his own with his young adulterous wife Armande, which may account in part for the bitter tone of the play (though the title role itself is only sympathetic by comparison...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Moliere's 'Dandin' | 7/9/1962 | See Source »

...According to Department of Agriculture Leaflet No. 340 (The Periodical Cicada), the noise goes: "Tsh-ee-EEEE-e-ou" ... or sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Garden: Look Out, Here They Come | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

...whole business, in wilders me. Are we to Ayme's (and Moravia's) hints that things do not matter, that love, , apathy, suicide and despair like echoes in E.M. Forster's Caves, all coming to nothing muffled "ou-boum"? I do not so; it is their way of dealing simple concern with which most writers are stuck whether want it or not: what can be from the century and its though wars. Moravia has escaped by Dino, who is beyond being by the problem; Ayme his trust in the squat, stolid Martin. We should have had from Ayme...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Portrait of the Hero as a Bored Young Man | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...Paris, philosophy, and modern society. The plot revolves around a housefly named Fanny who mysteriously escapes from his proper position in a Van Hoos still life (painted in the year 1675) and buzzes around observing modern life, until, absurdly, he dies. The press terms the disappearance "L'Affaire Ou est Fanny...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: A Fly in the Pigment | 9/30/1961 | See Source »

...Gallwey will be at number two for the varsity, facing Tom Freiberg, a winner over Weld a year ago. Bob Bowditch will meet yale captain Jon Clark at number three, while Fred Vin- ton, Jorge Lemann and Bill Wood round ou the Crimson top six. Their opponents will be Chris Scott, Sandy Wiener, and Rick Wallace, respectively...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Tennis Team Meets Yale Today For Eastern, Big Three Crowns | 5/13/1959 | See Source »

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