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Word: oublier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...Christmas shopping list, bringing sudden rewards to the hitherto unrecognized authors that it honors. Though Marcel Proust and Andre Malraux were among past winners, the jury-whose average age is 74-always picks a book that has enough pizazz for the mass reader. With its explicit sexual passages, Oublier Palerme could sell as many as 400,000 copies in France this year, will doubtless be quickly translated into English and other languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Prize Pizazz | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...Proud. As Novelist François Nourissier sees it, one reason that Oublier Palerme won was that Mile. Charles-Roux "comes from a well-known family and had no enemies on the jury." His remark suggests the intrigue that occurs in the demimonde of belles-lettres over the some 1,850 French literary prizes that are awarded each year. Nourissier, himself a former Vogue editor who resigned because Mile. "Charles-Roux was fired, captured this year's less lucrative but prestigious Académic Franchise prize for his Line Histoire Française a nostalgic reverie in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Prize Pizazz | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

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