Word: vies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...families who are the remnants of the old Spanish hacienda-owning aristocracy. Across the gulf between rich and poor stretches the growing middle class, a healthy 9,000,000 strong, born of industry and fed by solid paychecks and hope. It is so new and changing that Mexicans vie to define it. A man enters the middle class-according to typical definitions-when...
...Mount Ida on the Met's stage. He is surrounded by three goddesses who insist that he choose the fairest of them by handing her an apple (Golden Delicious, supplied by Sherry's Restaurant). The goddesses, of course, are the three reigning sopranos who, season after season, vie for favor at the Met-Zinka Milanov, Maria Meneghini Callas and Renata Tebaldi...
WILLIAM C. DA VIE Rosedale...
...irresistible when the country is foreign, and nowhere is the hay more beckoning than in France. This is the lighter-than-air burden of a carbonated first novel that will set male readers to thinking sheepishly of plain wrappers-if only because its dust jacket bears the subtitle, The Vie Amoureuse of Sally Jay in Paris...
...what if he does not make it?" I insisted. For the first time in our talk. Soustelle spoke French. He shrugged and said: "C'est la vie...