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...site (adjacent to the Fogg Art Museum), was given convincing proof that his absence had long been noted. Architecture students staged an impromptu reception, complete with 16-ft. effigies of Corbu's stylized Modulor figure, cheered him to the rafters. Exclaimed the delighted Corbu: "What spirit! Une atmosphere morale...
...EVENING CONCERT. Haydn, Symphony 103 (drum roll); Rachmaninoff, 'Cello Sonata; Vivaldi, Concerto in D for viola d'amore; Beethoen, Sonata 25 for piano, opus 79; Mendelssohn, Quartet no. 4; Ravel, Pavanne pour une Infante Defunte...
...mind was on the grey suede shoes, or. as Author Ryan argues, his own estimate of Allied intentions led him to discount the warning and leave the front. On the evening of June 5, Meyer caught the second part of the message: "Blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone [Wounding my heart with monotonous languor]." Following this broadcast, Canaris had told Meyer, the invasion would begin within 48 hours. When the excited Meyer burst into the Fifteenth Army chief's bridge game, General Hans von Salmuth ordered his troops alerted, then picked up his hand, telling his fellow...
...course in French literature, "but of course it doesn't rain in Provence." Vag remembered he would need a language recommendation for his French fellowship. He thought of M. Plombier, his French A section man. He had gotten a C- in the course, "mais alors, M. Plombier etait une ame sympathique...
Packard's examples of this struggle are frequently arresting-the builders who try to make their houses sound classy (Une maison ranch très originate), the executive who had his parents moved from an unfashionable cemetery to a posher last resting place. The trouble is that too much of what Author Packard observes is old hat, such as the upper-class preference for old hats over flashy new ones. He over-generalizes. One dubious example: Americans of Anglo-Saxon ancestry like to point to their past by living in Early American, white clapboard houses, while Jews prefer modern...