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Word: riche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself in the concert circuit. This is his recording debut, and it confirms his growing prestige. He manages to make Prokofiev's percussive, rather frantic concerto sing, and his considerate understanding of Sibelius' darkly sad Romanticism is powerful. Conductor Erich Leinsdorf's Boston Symphony gives Perlman rich support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jul. 14, 1967 | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

...SAILOR FROM GIBRALTAR, by Marguerite Duras. An early novel that tells a shaggy-dog story about a mysterious woman, rich and beautiful, who roams the seven seas looking for a long-lost lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jul. 14, 1967 | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

...with this full life, she wrote poetry, but write it she did-reams of it, in relentless iambic pentameter. It was dourly didactic, endlessly hortatory: "Come, come, I'll show unto thy sense,/ Industry hath its recompense." Some of it was inadvertently funny: "Was ever gem so rich found in thy trunk/ As Egypt's wanton Cleopatra drunk?" Yet when her work was published in London in 1650 as The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up In America, it became one of the "most vendible books in England," and when its author died in 1672 her eulogist said: "Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Benevolent Phantom | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...national movement, the Wobblies lasted barely 50 years, but they made it a lively half-century. Their story is sufficiently rich and vivid to survive even the unfortunate cast of academic language employed by the author, a British scholar and an editor of the Oxford Times. To some extent, the Wobblies were the progenitors of today's New Left. They shared the same detestation of contemporary society and the same desire to build a better world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Left | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...young Parisian, bored with his job and his mistress, ships aboard a yacht owned by a rich and beautiful woman who has but one aim in life: to find a sailor from Gibraltar, who she feels was the love of her life. As she remembers him, he was no ordinary navvy: at 20, when they had their stormy affair, he was fleeing French law for "the murder of the American ballbearings king, Nelson Nelson." Though she has had no word of him in years, her yacht, with its crew of seven, seeks him in ports on the seven seas without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Floating Picnic | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

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