Word: parlez
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...unthinkable.” “I am delighted to hear it,” Gomes said. “This is a room full of old dogs and these are some new tricks that you’re proposing to teach.” PARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS? Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 raised the possibility that “already overstressed demands on the infrastructure” would cause the University to divert resources from already existing artistic endeavors on campus. But Tom Conley, professor of romance languages and literature...
...Bunuel’s surrealist shorts, Godard’s flawless “Breathless,” and Truffaut’s classic “The 400 Blows.” We hear the class is relatively painless, though it is taught in French. Parlez-vous anglais? Non! A new offering, FC 85, “Japan Pop: From Basho to Banana,” teaches anime and manga, alongside other eclectic elements of Japanese popular culture. FC 72, “Russian Culture from Revolution to Perestroika,” taught by well-liked professor Svetlana Boym...
...mastering 15 languages in 26 years. The sheer math—gaining near fluency in a new foreign language every 1.73 years—might boggle the mind of even the most jaded Harvard overachievers. Now imagine learning 15 languages with the knowledge that you’ll never parlez francais in Paris or practice Czech in Prague. In fact, you’ll never leave North America...
...Harlem on My Mind" (1933), by Ethel Waters, on "Irving Berlin: A Hundred Years." This bluesy number about Josephine Baker, the homesick toast of Paris ("and my parlez-vous will not ring true/ With Harlem on my mind"), was introduced by Waters, the most persuasive, least remembered chanteuse of the days. She does soft, she does raspy; she does both Baker and Berlin sweet justice...