Word: val
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned his favorite Delacroix to the wall so that others could not enjoy it. Invited out to dinner, he insisted that there be no dogs around, and no flowers on the table, lest other guests indulge in sentimentalities. This was the Degas whom the French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry came to know, an old man raging at his enemies and riding alone on the tops of buses...
Last week an English translation of Valéry's essay on Degas appeared in U.S. bookstores (Degas Dance Drawing; Lear, $5). It pictured the 19th Century master as coolly and deftly as Degas used to picture worn little ballet girls...
Yearning for Secrets. Degas, Valéry reported, did everything the hard way. He "concealed behind harsh and arbitrary opinions ... a despair of ever satisfying himself; his bitter and lofty views developed along with his penetrating knowledge of the masters; his yearning for the secrets he ascribed to them; his perpetual awareness of their baffling perfection...
...weakness, the men without arms, was there all the time. Princeton backs John Weber, Val Wagner, and George Sella consistently slipped out of the grasp of potential tacklers to pick up unearned yardage. Take away center-backerup Bill Hickey and it easily might have been a walk-away for the Tigers at the half-time...
...made by Trappist monks near Montreal. Alberta offers the value-seeker a platter-filling Gold Medal Ranch steak for $1. And for those who go to Canada for unusual foods and not the scenery, a Flin Flon café can rustle up a gamy beavertail soup, and a Val d'Or café can do wonders with bear paws...