Word: alterity
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...Monte Carlo gave the world premieres of major works by Berlioz, Ravel, Faure, Honegger, Poulenc and Milhaud, attracted the famed Diaghilev Ballet. More recently it had become little more than a second-rate casino group catering to the international gambling set. Then, six years ago, in an effort to alter the popular, frivolous image of Monte Carlo as a playboy playground. Rainier set out to refurbish his concert orchestra. His first-and canniest-move was to hire ex-French Foreign Legion Officer Frémaux...
...measuring equipment that she mastered only after several years of electronics study. The biggest of her new in struments, the large bass, and the small est, the treble, are still causing trouble. It would take a seven-foot man to play the large bass unless she can somehow alter its proportions while retaining the tone; only a midget could play the treble. "At the moment," says Mrs. Hutchins, "we're up against the human physique...
...British author-scientist conceded that if he were to give the Godkin lectures again he might alter slightly the emphasis and tone of his remarks. But he states that he would still use the same illustrations to reach the same conclusions...
...Lessons. Mills believes the King-Anderson program would alter the philosophy and jeopardize the future of the entire social security system. Moreover, he was co-sponsor of the existing Kerr-Mills Act, whose provisions for medical care are backed by the A.M.A...
Carnejoux is the alter ego of Novelist Claude Mauriac, son of Francois Mauriac...