Word: paix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three weeks, she had gathered 100 capes and returned to the U.S.-but not before deputizing two ex-policemen and the head bartender at the Café de la Paix to continue collecting capes, which she is now selling rapidly at her shop for $25 to $50, depending on their condition...
...together with the local antique dealer, is in charge of the campaign, most of those hinky-dinky ditties about her were untrue. She was not a mademoiselle at all, but a tall, slim widow named Marie Lecoq who worked as a waitress at the Café de la Paix. Furthermore, during the four years that British and Commonwealth troops were stationed in Armentières, she was more virtuous than many of her unsung sisters. The ditty got its start, in fact, when she roundly slapped a British officer who tried to kiss her in the café. Its first...
...other in the French edition, Critique de la Raison Dialectique and the introductory Question de Methode. As is the case with Raymond Aron, American publishers have adopted the infuriating habit of translating all but the most important of a man's work first, so that Aron's Guerre et Paix entre Les Nations and Sartre's Critique have still not appeared. A series of selections from the Critique are translated in The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. It is alternately almost entirely unintelligible and utterly lucid. Speaking of alientation, Sartre will describe beautifully the working day of a factory girl...
...tapestries and murals, one of which depicts the four continents-with the Americas, of course, represented by a red Indian. The rooms are choked with history: in the Salon de 1'Horloge, the Versailles Treaty was negotiated and the Kellogg-Briand Pact signed; in the Gallery de la Paix, the late President John Kennedy received guests on his 1961 visit; the Big Four held many of their postwar meetings in the Salon de Beauvais...
Dogged Devotion. Princeton, N.J., the Hotel Cecil, London, Villa Paquita, Juan-les-Pins, France, La Paix, Rodger's Ford, Towson, Md., and the Garden of Allah Hotel, Hollywood, are the datelines of his letters, and they are printed by Editor Turnbull, who is also Fitzgerald's biographer, in the sensible fashion of grouping them with the people they were addressed to. Mostly they are to his mother, his daughter, his agent, his editor at Scribner (Maxwell Perkins), to his old Princeton pals, Wilson and John Peale Bishop. What shines through them all is his dogged devotion...