Word: savoir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Savoir-Vivre...
Social Filter. L'Academie Maxim's was founded two and a half years ago by Maggie Vaudable, wife of the restaurant's present owner, to instruct a carefully selected group of girls in "the special sense of savoir-vivre that the French have prided themselves on since Louis XIV." Though the school claims to be open to all girls sufficiently familiar with the French language and culture to benefit from-not simply get along in-the all-French classes, in practice the students are recruited through a social filtering system that stretches through Europe...
...with the Radcliffe Freshman Register. Soonor or later he flings down the Radcliffe Freshman Register, and stomps off into the sun-embroidered hills. Whether those hills be the rolling plains of the Cambridge Common or the path to some other aviary, depends in good measure on the sophistication, the savoir faire, the pate de foie gras with which the male approaches those imperspicuous pages...
...excellence of last night's show depended primarily upon the skill of the principal characters. Actually, the show is Joey's, and the profiency of Richard France in that role was the most important element. His flawless stage presence and general savoir faire held the production together, and seemed to impart to the other players the confidence they so surely indicated. Mr. France played the part to at; his voice was serviceable and clear, his dancing dazzling...
Quarterback Ted Halaby has acquired a certain amount of savoir-faire after one and one-half games of nearly continuous service on offense, and, though no Ravenel, he is at least shrewd and steady. Larry Repsher, if his bruised ribs do not hamper him, should continue to be a fast, driving runner at right half, and fullback Jimmy Nelson should not give Yoviesin any worries...