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标题: Economist, July 20, 2013 (IV) [打印本页]

作者: choi 时间: 7-23-2013 15:33
标题: Economist, July 20, 2013 (IV)
(4) A Memoir of winemaking | In the Drink.
http://www.economist.com/news/bo ... luence-people-drink
(book review on Ray Walker, The Road to Burgundy; The unlikely story of an American making wine and a new life in France. Gotham Books, 2013)

Note:
(a) Panglossian (adj; Pangloss, optimistic tutor in Voltaire's Candide (1759); First Known Use 1831):
"marked by the view that all is for the best in this best of possible worlds : excessively optimistic"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/panglossian
(b) Gevrey-Chambertin wine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gevrey-Chambertin_wine
(produced in the communes of Gevrey-Chambertin and Brochon)

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