Word: provencale
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His face is grey and his hands are speckled with age now. Heavy, stoop-shouldered, protected even from springtime by his muffler, he is a grandly Churchillian figure on the campus. His music is still spiced with youth and so are his interests: Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck built such a...
The Visitor. In 1957, for the light he had shed "on the problem posed in our day by the conscience of man," Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature-the youngest man except Kipling ever so honored. With the money, he and his wife bought a Provencal farmhouse near the...
In the intellectual landscape created by French Novelist Boulle, the most interesting sight is a special stream of Gallic irony. His heroes drown in it before the reader's eyes, but even as they go down it is obvious that they all know how to swim. In The Bridge...
The hamlet is plunged into civic war over the question of who's lying-Fernandel, who wasn't there and swears that his son wasn't either, v. the unwed mother, who was there and moans that Fernandel's son was, too. Fernandel won't...
Another controversy that Audience's second issue provoked centers around a thirteenth century Provencal poem by Girault de Bornelh. Graduate student Stephen Orgel claims that Norman Shapiro's recent translation in "a Cambridge literary journal," leaves out the final, and crucial, stanza. To his amusing remarks on the poem's...