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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30329

    Latest from CR3

    This report in the Telegraph about Alan Davey's speech to the ABO:

    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26540

    #2
    Encouraging, ff? Will there be real "clear water" between Mr Davey and his predecessor...?
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • french frank
      Administrator/Moderator
      • Feb 2007
      • 30329

      #3
      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      Encouraging, ff? Will there be real "clear water" between Mr Davey and his predecessor...?
      Well, we sent him a courtesy copy of the survey questions a couple of weeks ago, so he knows in which direction our wind is probably blowing.

      I may say that, as a former teacher of medieval literature, including to students who sometimes felt it was irrelevant compared with French café society of the 1950s I'm well aware of the need to attract without oversimplifying!
      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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      • aka Calum Da Jazbo
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 9173

        #4
        alas French Cafe Society of the 1950s is now as remote as medieval literature ....

        According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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        • Serial_Apologist
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 37710

          #5
          Attendez et voyez

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          • vinteuil
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 12846

            #6
            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
            Attendez et voyez
            ...surtout attendez et oyez

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            • french frank
              Administrator/Moderator
              • Feb 2007
              • 30329

              #7
              Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
              alas French Cafe Society of the 1950s is now as remote as medieval literature ....
              It was then too - the students were just attracted to Gitanes, Juliette Greco and wearing black.
              It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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              • aka Calum Da Jazbo
                Late member
                • Nov 2010
                • 9173

                #8
                and who would not be? and Miles Davis, and we did read Sartre, Camus, Jacques Prévert, de Beauvoir, Mauriac &c [my mate was doing French A Level ... ]

                also Charlie Parker & Billie Holiday

                but mostly Gitanes and Juliette [black was a no brainer]




                ahem ... great radio documentary in there somewhere eh ....
                According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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                • VodkaDilc

                  #9
                  Am I especially thick in not realising what CR3 stood for when i saw the title of this thread? I initially thought of a classic Nakamichi cassette recorder.

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                  • Barbirollians
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 11709

                    #10
                    I haven't listened to Juliette Greco in ages - must remedy that .

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                    • french frank
                      Administrator/Moderator
                      • Feb 2007
                      • 30329

                      #11
                      But my point was that all that was vieux jeu when I was attempting to interest pre-Honours students in Charles d'Orléans. It was becoming passé when I was a student. I suppose it was the funny clothes


                      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                      • aka Calum Da Jazbo
                        Late member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 9173

                        #12
                        well this swooning teenager in 60/61 felt live currents of excitement and seduction ....

                        perhaps we could tell Mr CR3 that we expect the same from R3 in 15/16 et seq?
                        According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30329

                          #13
                          And this in the BBC house mag - CR3 standing in front of the FOR3 logo

                          The best of the BBC, with the latest news and sport headlines, weather, TV & radio highlights and much more from across the whole of BBC Online
                          It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                          • Old Grumpy
                            Full Member
                            • Jan 2011
                            • 3619

                            #14
                            From the ABO annual conference page: "Our principal media partner is Classic FM"

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                            • Old Grumpy
                              Full Member
                              • Jan 2011
                              • 3619

                              #15
                              Originally posted by french frank View Post
                              This report in the Telegraph about Alan Davey's speech to the ABO:

                              http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/...bing-down.html

                              Full text here

                              OG

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