Word: tre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making it possible to grow oysters in waters where for various reasons they are unable to breed. The oysters of Locmariaquer, for instance, are transplanted three times before they are shipped to market. The success of the process depends on what the French call tromper I'huître ("fooling the oysters"), an ingenious method of making the oyster clean itself out and preventing it from "yawning" and losing its liquid when it is exposed...
...BELLS OF BICÉTRE by Georges Simenon. 240 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...through motions rather than emotions. The two best songs in the score are sexy: A Room Without Windows ("a room without doors") and The Friendliest Thing ("two people can do"). Too many of the lyrics sound like alliances between words that should never have met ("raison d'ètre . . . et cetera...
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES: MÉLODIES DE FRANCE (Angel). Soprano De los Angeles has a voice as well-suited to dulcet song cycles from France as to the Spanish repertory she often sings. Here, with little help from the Paris Conservatory Orchestra under Georges Prétre, she sings Ravel, Duparc and Debussy with ease and grace...
Keats's life, already tre subject of four major studies, holds a peculiar fascination for both the general reader and the aspiring writer. For the first there is grand, poignant drama in the tragic story of the neglected genius, his famous love affair with Fanny Brawne, and his death of consumption at twenty-five. Even more, there is the charm of the man himself as be appears in his poems and letters and his friends' reminiscences--warm, sensitive and noble, the most Shakespearean of modern poets...