Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rich Sunbelt states of Arizona and Florida hold particular appeal for banks. But until lately, big institutions in New York City and San Francisco left that prime territory to regional banks like Miami's Southeast Banking Corp. ($9 billion). Says Southeast Chairman Charles Zwick...
That is a sample of the rich meanings Princeton History Professor Robert Darnton finds in the commonplaces of prerevolutionary France. He is exploring a relatively new branch of history, cross-fertilized by anthropology and known in France as l'histoire des mentalités. Says Darnton: "It attempts to show not merely what people thought but how they thought - how they construed the world...
...from the letters that a young merchant in La Rochelle wrote to the bookseller who regularly sent him the new works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In Darnton's view, Rousseau's preachings first established "the author as Prometheus" and his readers as emotional disciples. Darnton also finds rich social implications in folk tales like "Little Red Riding Hood...
This being so, imagine the consternation of a distinguished chamber ensemble, rich in years and adoring reviews, when their first violinist is felled by a heart attack. Their alternative is retirement or filling the empty chair. Brief experience with the former is not encouraging. After years of letting the group set their tones and rhythms, the remaining bachelors find their loneliness difficult. And without the calming core with which music provided their lives, they are restive. The appearance of Edoardo Morelli (Pierre Malet) is an unspoken prayer's answer. He is a superb musician. He is a handsome...
...these emotionally rich roles, Calvin Levels and Marilyn Rockafellow, under Elinor Renfield's forcefully realistic, behaviorally sensitive direction, are at once strong and subtle. They are so good, in fact, that they point up the superficiality of the out-of-school lives the playwright has concocted for them. They seem to have been plucked out of sociology texts rather than absorbed from life, expanding the play's length without usefully expanding our understanding of its people. Nonetheless, the heart of the play is sound, and its beat is worth listening...