Word: lui
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theatre du Vieux Colombier nous a apporte une representation bien vivante. Ce n'est pas Racine tel que l'on acoutume de le voir. Il est joue avec une force, vraiment une ferocite, qui laisse le spectateur lui-meme epuise apres quelques scenes. Mais c'etait une force quelquefois ingouvernable--chez Marguerite Jamois (Agrippine), Hubert Noel (Brittanicus), et Jacques Francois (Neron, un monstre ne peut-etre plutot qu'un monstre naissant); une force pas toujours accordee a la tension si forte des lignes alexandrins eux-memes. Mais dans le role de Narcisse, Raymond Gerome a ete merveilleux, une belle anguille...
Terrified villagers termed the Devil King's new order Dao Lui, the Religion of the Sword, because his men, whether earthbound, high-flying or invisible, are addicted to murdering their victims by plunging their pikes through the palm-leaf walls of village huts. Recently the late Ba Cut's mother reportedly joined the Devil King, bringing with her several hundred of Ba Cut's old followers. The Devil King ordered them to let their beards grow down to their navels, administered an oath during which the newcomers drank one another's blood mixed with rice wine...
Slacker Malgre Lui. Once back home, the ex-President's holiday mood slipped off, as he watched the Republicans, under Taft, grow more cautious and passively conservative. "I was able to hold the Republican Party in power," he wrote, "only because I insisted on a steady advance, and dragged them along with me. Now the advance has been stopped...
...should have backed the protest by force.") Repeatedly he offered to furnish and equip a volunteer cavalry division for emergency war service. ("I and my four sons" were to be among its officers.) He was consistently turned down. He sat the war out, a "slacker malgre lui,'' ljut his sons went overseas with the Army as fast as he could get them there. One of them, 21-year-old Quentin, was shot down in his pursuit plane and killed...
Expert Help. Most revealing of the tributes was a speech by China's No. 2 labor boss, Lui Ning-i, listing some-doubtless not all-of the Chinese projects on which Russian experts have been working: the Peking-Hankow, Canton-Hankow, Chengtu-Chungking and Tienshui-Lanchow railways; the Huai River conservation plan (employing some 5,000,000 workers, many of them slave laborers); the Chinkiang water detention basin, the new Tangku harbor in Tientsin. According to best estimates, there are 60,000 Russians "helping out" in China...