Word: rochefoucauld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What the Negro has done to himself was well expressed by French Moralist La Rochefoucauld: "The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves...
...calculated the association's president, Morris Bishop, they would turn out 3,600 books a year. The thought appalled him. "If publication is a virtue," reasoned Bishop, professor emeritus of romance literature at Cornell and himself a prolific author of witty light verse and biography (Pascal, Petrarch, La Rochefoucauld), "so is refraining from publishing unnecessary words...
...Rochefoucauld...
...novels (all have been published in England, five in the US.). His books, most of which have historical themes, are masses of epigrams marinated in a stinging mixture of metaphysics and blood. Mostly they resemble themselves, but something similar might have been the result if the Due de la Rochefoucauld had written novels with plots suggested by Jack London. Stacton writes so fast that he is able to arrange his novels in "triplets"-bouquets of three related volumes-and he turns out a triplet almost every year. Among his novels published in the U.S. are On a Balcony, about Nefertiti...
...17th century La Rochefoucauld's maxims were full of bee stings and rare perfumes. Lec's often have the smell of burnt flesh and of sickly sweet gas, the feel of barbed wire, and a vision of the world from a hollow...