Word: passee
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Though the purists cry "Heresy" many people agree. They argue that the human ear, adaptable instrument that it is, after repeated hearings of a note-perfect performance of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony in all the glory of living stereo," will never again be satisfied with a fallible human performance...
Passe. The sophisticates of OCAM voted to boycott the September meeting of African chiefs of state because it is to be held in Ghana. They will also stay away from this month's important Afro-Asian summit meeting in Algiers. "We consider Afro-Asianism a little passe," Senegal'...
Later, at a press conference, King softened his criticism a bit: "Let me assure you that we are not here to say Boston is the worst city in the United States. I think there are some good things in Boston. I think there are many, many people in this community...
As for Hedda and Louella, she says: "I challenge them, because they're passe. Louella has a gushing attitude toward the whole industry and neither she nor Hedda writes her own column. Hedda's not a writer. I am. I've written books and novels." She has...
A MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. The Nobel-prizewinning author wrote this memoir of his lean years in the Paris of the '20s when he was in his 50s, rich, famous but passe. Feast reveals Hemingway's deadly, deadpan sense of humor, his lingering romanticism, but most of...