Word: gallic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doorstep. But mostly he stayed quietly indoors, peeping from behind the curtain, taking care of his pet rabbits, tending the children-Dorothy, Jimmy, Douglas, Harry, Freddy. In the birth certificates, Yvette listed the children's father as "unknown." The neighbors viewed the strange union with Gallic tolerance and were closemouthed with strangers. Three times in the 14 years French police came, looking for "a missing American soldier." Each time Yvette hid Wayne in a cubbyhole under the stairs. Back in Chillicothe, Mo., Wayne's father gradually gave up hope of ever seeing him again; in 1950 Wayne...
Author Guerard (The Hunted, Maquisard), 43, is a Texas-born Francophile who is currently professor of English at Harvard. He writes with a Gallic coolness and clarity, and with the sure French eye for the inhuman qualities of the human condition. This novel, his fifth, has both wit and wisdom, but his major characters are fated to sound like literary echoes: charming as Christiane is, she has been met before more charmingly in the pages of Colette; Anthony, in his bedridden sloth, his antisocial despairs, his wounded intellectual cries, has slouched through a long line of novels ranging from Ivan...
Pliny did not say how well the Gallic harvester worked (probably not well), and few other classical authors even mentioned it. No contemporary drawing of it was known, and there was a fair possibility that it might have been only as real as some other items in Pliny, such as people in India who have only one foot and sometimes use it as a parasol.* But last week an ancient carving was proving that the Gallic harvester really existed, just about as Pliny described...
...prize block, which has just been cleaned of its incrustations, shows the debated Gallic harvester. It has two wheels and a comb of teeth, just as Pliny said, and a box to catch the heads of grain. In front, carrying a shovel-like implement, is a laborer. The only important deviation from the Pliny version is that the motive power appears to be a mule instead of oxen...
...into briskly readable, contemporary English by such able writers as Robert Graves (The Golden Ass of Apuleius. Lucan's Pharsalia), Rolfe Humphries (Ovid's Metamorphoses), Moses Hadas (An Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus), Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald (Sophocles' Theban plays), Stanley Alexander Handford (Caesar's Gallic Wars...