Word: tr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever their faults, the novels have astonishing qualities. If many French women writers happily strip in public, that may be because, as 23-year-old Novelist Elisabeth Trévol puts it: "We are afraid to write a woman's book, so we try to deepen our voices. We discover how easy and amusing it is to talk of things 'taboo.' That shamelessness is a bit forced." But the majority of the women novelists, even the beginners, are sure-handed craftswomen. The best of them do not trade on their femininity, want to be judged as writers...
...after an absence of 34 years, was 78-year-old Pierre Monteux, who will head the Met's French wing (Faust, Pélleas et Mèlisande, Carmen) this season. Nothing about the new production startled him: "Everyone knows all of it, no? The music, it is très aimable. There can be no surprises...
...over Belgium's flat Jabbeke highway near Ostend, Standard's new car racked up top speeds of 125.8 m.p.h. with a stripped down "speed" trim and 115.4 in touring trim (with the top up). Standard's delighted managing director, Sir John Black, 58, christened it the TR-2 (Triumph Two Liter) in honor of Triumph Motor Co. Ltd., the Standard subsidiary that built...
Last week the first mass-produced TR-2 came off the assembly line. Short (12 ft. 4 in.) and low (3 ft. 10 in. to the top of the windshield), it has a four-cylinder, 90-h.p. engine with two carburetors and 8.5 to 1 compression ratio. The TR-2 gets 24 miles to the gallon, has independent front-wheel suspension for easier riding and two bucket seats. A particular attraction for sports-car buyers: the jetlike scream produced at high speed by the air scoop in front. The TR-2 will go on sale in the U.S. early...
...Charles the Second at a public meeting. When the King demanded his advisors' names, he said: "To name any particular person (if there were such) would be a mean and unworthy thing, therefore I desire to be excused from all farther answer to such questions." (6 How. St. Tr. 1189, 1194 (1676).) Professor Chafee, attributing to this silence a part in the passage of the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679, adds: "It is this small 'mean and unworthy' thing which investigators are now trying to force citizens to do, in the name of Americanism. The only sure way to evade...