Word: pascale
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...every five years, calculated the association's president, Morris Bishop, they would turn out 3,600 books a year. The thought appalled him. "If publication is a virtue," reasoned Bishop, professor emeritus of romance literature at Cornell and himself a prolific author of witty light verse and biography (Pascal, Petrarch, La Rochefoucauld), "so is refraining from publishing unnecessary words...
...Gaulle's peregrinations were far from impressive. The general gave vague promises of technical aid and increased trade. He flattered South American self-esteem with lofty references to Bolivar, San Martín and Sucre, and in turn was feted with speeches filled with mentions of Pascal, Racine, Montesquieu, Rousseau and Jeanne d'Arc. He entertained the rich and wellborn at receptions, and nodded and waved with friendly but aloof dignity to the huge crowds that jammed the streets and the squares to see him and hail...
...Died. Pascal Covici, 75, John Steinbeck's editor at Viking Press, who helped with such novels as Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, "demanding of me," Steinbeck said, "more than I had, causing me to be more than I should have been without him"; of complications following intestinal surgery; in Manhattan...
...tankers, sail boats and quiet pastoral scenes stand 110 greats of the history of science. To make things less bewildering for the literate, Dufy labeled the figures. Originally he painted all of them - Archimedes, who once ran naked through the streets of Syracuse, Thales, Aristotle, Leonardo, Bacon, Galileo, Faraday, Pascal, Morse, Edison, Bell, Helmholtz-in the nude. Then he had extras from the Comédie Franchise model period costumes while be dressed up his pantheon...
...named after Louis (roughly 1648-1715) was perhaps more profoundly embodied in the frail frame of another Frenchman, Blaise Pascal. Pascal began as a youthful exponent of reason and science-most notably in his studies of atmospheric pressure and the calculus of probabilities-only to recoil in middle life from everything science and reason had apparently achieved. In his last testament, the famous Thoughts on Religion, he emerged as an eloquent defender of religious belief. Science, he declared, was mere presumption, and man could grope his way towards the truth only by renouncing the intellect and "placing his faith...