Word: rimbaud
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...with the escalation of our corporate predations, it has steadily increased. Each privileged young man of Harvard College who proceeds each afternoon across the ivy-covered lanes of the Yard, or sits down in the pleasant, sheltered stacks to pore into a work of Chaucer or to explicate Rimbaud or Beaudelaire, is living his life and building his career upon the ruined hopes and broken dreams of other people every bit his human equal, yet who--for reason of no greater sin than non-possession of the proper ticket of admission--will never be able to live...
...conservative the British. They are astounding in their ability to take even the tortured vision of a post like Rimbaud--as Britten did in his Les Illuminations--and convert it to some planning mood pieces. When presenting a work not in English, the orchestral management ought to provide text translations. If only to avoid fooling the audience into thinking the intermission has arrived (as happened after the Parade movement...
...Season in Hell, Rimbaud...
...unassuming young Japanese carrying Rimbaud's memoirs in his pocket-as police discovered later-was elaborately polite as he debarked with two companions from Air France Flight No. 132 at Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport last week. "Where are you from?" an elderly woman asked. "I am from Japan, madam," was the reply, "and I am very excited about my trip to the Holy Land." The woman answered: "I hope you have a pleasant stay." Minutes later, both were dead, along with 24 others, and 78 persons were wounded in one of the most callous and grotesque...
...with 7,000 glass stalactites. The lighting can be altered from very bright to intime. Out of view but also done over is the ancient kitchen; heretofore state banquets have been catered affairs. The French press unanimously applauded Pompidou's devastating coup de main. Someone recalled that Arthur Rimbaud, one of Pompidou's favorite poets, told Frenchmen: "One must be absolutely modern." That was back...