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Alison, Bailie, Stephen Bernow, William Dougherty, Michael Lazarus, and Sivan Kartha, 2001.
William H. Dougherty's article, “French Leave” [XVII, 3], concerning the difficulty of translating satisfactorily the title of the movie Au Revoir les Enfants , reminds me of a conversation that, as an undergraduate at Princeton, I had in the 1930s with Professor Maurice E. Coindreau, who was engaged in translating Hemingway into French.
I was intrigued by William Dougherty's comment [XXI,2] on Martyn Ecott's article The Franglais Blues [XX,3].
This strikes me as remarkable because, although Dougherty was not a literary person, he managed to combine an ironic analogy and parallelism to come up with a line that could be called pure wit.
My favorite is a retort by former college football coach, Duffy Dougherty, to a remark that football is a contact sport.