Word: zola
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There are exceptions, of course. Had Lord Chesterfield's father shared the President's sentiment, Lord Chesterfield's son might never have received those noble letters to which he paid no attention, but which have instructed the world for centuries. Zola would not have fired off his blunt "J'accuse" on the Dreyfus case...
...wonders of nature, and he reads incessantly. "He loves literature," says one of his advisers. "When things are not going badly he will talk about nothing but literature; he only talks politics when he is worried." His favorite writer is Chateaubriand. But he also reveres Balzac, Emile Zola, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Nobel-prizewinning French poet Saint-John Perse. He came to Marx late and has never read him in his entirety. Several years ago, at a summer cultural festival in Avignon, he remarked, "The day when there will be a socialist art, I will no longer...
...character. Her stubbornness certainly can be annoying, but cannot subdue the sympathy Kedrova elicits by capturing the intensity of a woman almost shattered by Nazi torture--the fear and sensitivity of a woman living within herself: finding solace in the literature and old photographs of Emile Zola and Victor Hugo, associating images of her playful grandchildren with Nazi soldiers guarding a campsite. Upon her first visit to the Pacific Ocean. Eva throws off her shoes to run through the water and kick the sand, her inspiration drawing much surprise and disapproval from her husband. But, in spite of his forebearing...
Holpuch and Smith combined for 39 points. Wendy Carle, the other senior co-captain, displayed the best single defensive effort of the year by stifling the Chiefs' star, Randi Zola, in the second half. Best of all, a guard combination, Boutillier and Hall, played with confidence and flair, tearing the Springfield press to shreds...
...education, my reassurance, my comportment came out of reading literature. I found my real world, and my real friends, in books." At ten, "much too early," he read Maxim Gorky; by twelve, he was devouring Crime and Punishment; from France, there were heavy doses of Jules Verne, Emile Zola and Anatole France, "whose boulevardier quality was amazing...