Word: pascale
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...fateful day in 1940, a would-be actress named Deborah Kerr (rhymes with star) was sitting in a London restaurant with an acquaintance of British Producer-Director Gabriel Pascal. When Pascal himself was introduced, he promptly chanted in his richest Magyar overtones: "Sweet lady, you have a spiritual face...
...some way which Pascal could not quite fathom, the bohemian tradition was being betrayed. It was a tradition epitomized, in the Left Bank's 19th Century heyday, by Author Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, who used to lead a live lobster around on a leash. "He does not bark," Barbey solemnly explained, "and he has the wisdom...
Sartre and his followers were not seen so often now at the Flore. Disappointed admirers had stopped hanging around, and the place was full of nobodies. That saddened Pascal; and he was alarmed to see Existentialism menaced by two upstart cults: Lettrism and Sensorialism...
...spite of his eminent philosophical name, these considerations meant nothing to Pascal, the waiter at the Café de Flore, who was much more interested in tips. Both the Lettrists and the Sensorialists disdained the Flore. The Lettrists patronized more congenial spots on the Right Bank, of all places; the Sensorialists, for reasons connected with their erotic ethic, avoided all saloons. "France has had enough café literature," Sensorialist LeGrand had said. "Cafés are fine for anyone who merely wants adventures...
...Pascal curled his lip. "Lettrism," he sneered. "Sensorialism. These are what menace us today. We must combat them if we wish things to remain as they were in the good old days...