Word: xavier
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Somewhere Over the Rimbaud. This new collection was discovered in 1948 by Gilbert Lely, a French scholar, at the chateau of the Marquis Xavier de Sade, a direct descendant. It would be impolite to call Lely a sadist, but he certainly is a Sadean, and a doting one at that. Lely hopes that the letters will help readers to "enjoy De Sade's dark erotic paradise without guilt." Freud and Havelock Ellis ("the supreme triumph of human idealism") are cited. Fair enough from these specialists, but Lely insists that one letter can be compared only to "the music...
...DREAMS OF REASON by Xavier Domingo. 148 pages. Braziller...
...Xavier Domingo, a 36-year-old Spaniard who works as a literary journalist in Paris, has chosen to write about a civic "nightmare"-the 1961 police action against the sub-proletariat of Algerians living in the squalid city outskirts-in terms of a real nightmare...
Boston, undefeated in ECAC play, has lost twice to Michigan Tech and once to St. Francis Xavier of Nova Scotia. The only six likely to challenge their Eastern supremacy is Clarkson, but Harvard captain Bob Clark says B.U. "is ripe for as upset...
...subtle merits and elusive memo ries of Francis Xavier Morrissey, 55, were scrutinized for nine hours by Senate Judiciary Committee members, who then approved President Johnson's nominee for the $30,000-a-year lifetime judgeship (TIME, Oct. 8). There were, of course, turgid testimonials arranged by Morrissey's backers. Anticipating opposition in Senate subcommittee hearings, they put on ten witnesses and adduced an encomium from Richard Cardinal Gushing, who in 1956 christened Morrissey's tenth baby, Richard Gushing, in the first such ceremony ever televised...