Word: zola
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Next year, I and all of my classmates will graduate from Harvard. As a concentrator in French and Italian literature, I will know more than most about Moliere, Honore de Balzac and Emile Zola, and much about their Italian counterparts. In my case, however, I will have picked up only snippets of information from a diverse but disordered array of other disciplines--the English Revolution, early Christian literature in America, basic economics...
...Hollywood, history has always been what it likes to call "underlying material," a lode of legend, conveniently located in the public domain, from which it can quarry inspirational tales of resistance to tyranny, redemption from injustice. From The Life of Emile Zola to Braveheart, audiences bedeviled by the ambiguities of modern life have derived moral instruction and emotional uplift from these transformations of the complex past into simple, glowing metaphorical guides to right behavior...
Schor's first book, Zola's Crowds, waspublished...
...chair of the department, Dillon Professorof the Civilization of France Susan R. Suleiman,said Schor's work on Emile Zola was first-rate...
...100th anniversary of Emile Zola's article "J'accuse," France's Roman Catholic daily paper, La Croix, apologized for its anti-Semitic editorials during the Dreyfus affair...