ACCOUNTABILITY SCHOOL SCI-TECH ACADEMY'S NEW DIRECTOR INSISTS ON PROGRESS...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  July 14, 1996 ;     508 words ......school has hired a new director, John Le Tellier, whose background is in motivating students...real systematic accountability,'' said Le Tellier, who was chosen by a committee of parents...September serving grades 7 through 12. Le Tellier's approach combines an insistence on...

Raymond Queneau and the early Oulipo.(founding of Ouvroir de Litterature...

French Forum;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......particular, Jacques Bens's book, Oulipo 1960-1963, in which are...from the acronym OLiPo to OuLiPo, one learns many important...should be recalled that the Oulipo was first conceived (if...fact beyond dispute. The Oulipo says as much in the current...where the Oulipian Herve Le ...

3 CHARTER SCHOOLS PROPOSED.(Local)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  February 19, 1997 ;     425 words ......to a Socratic dialogue type of inquiry. Co-organizer Joanie Le Tellier hopes for an August opening with 400 kindergartners through...think and question as they apply their knowledge,'' said Le Tellier. Parents have signed intent-to-enroll forms for 375 students...

Oulipo service

The Village Voice;  November 17, 1998 ;     700+ words ......ambassador of the French literary society Oulipo, swept into town last week to flog his new book, the Oulipo Compendium (Atlas, $19.99). A bearish man...intricate linguistic experiments for which the Oulipo is known. Founded in 1960 by the novelist...

Anniversaries

The Independent - London;  January 18, 1995 ;     206 words ...Births: Francois-Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, statesman, 1641; Peter Mark Roget, lexicographer, 1779; Charles John Kean, actor, 1811; Sir Edward Frankland...

Books: There's method in the madness A novel without the letter `e'? A...

The Independent - London;  April 10, 1999 ;     700+ words ......more advanced techniques employed by the Oulipo, a writers' group of which he is the...palindrome, I note) of the newly published Oulipo Compendium, edited by Harry Mathews and...altogether admirable American author. The Oulipo Compendium is, appropriately, the most...

Fit is the name of the fashion jeans game.

Daily News Record;  January 1, 1990 ;     700+ words ......purchased for the wash and also the name, said Jean-Louis Le Tellier, Aviatic's sales agent in the United States. He said the jeans...sandblasted or stonewashed and are a basic five-pocket jean. Le Tellier said the average retail price of $105 requires that Aviatic...

The OuLiPoe, or Constraint and (Contre-) Performance: "The Philosophy of...

Comparative Literature;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Potentielle (Workshop of Potential Literature or OuLiPo) , a group of writers and mathematicians...association may seem odd, and Poe and the OuLiPo are separated by chronological, geographical...situations, feelings, and experiences, the OuLiPo is known for its sense of dcalage that...

Obituary: Jacques Bens

The Independent - London;  September 5, 2001 ;     700+ words ......crossword-puzzler, founding member of the OuLiPo, is excused from its meetings due to his...some suggestion of the nature of this OuLiPo. L'Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle...spontaneous prose or stream of consciousness. OuLiPo members are committed to experimentation...

30 DAY GUARANTEE

The Boston Globe;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......nation) will write the first words of a manuscript. Their goal: 50,000 words (about 175 pages) by midnight on the 30th. Laura le Tellier of Hebron, Conn., has "won" achieved the 50,000- word mark twice, and is planning a third novel. She remembers sitting down...

Fiction at Play: Welcome to the Fun House

The Washington Post;  December 20, 1987 ;     700+ words ......according to the proverbial wisdom of the Oulipo, a Paris-based group of writers and mathematicians. Founded in 1960, the Oulipo (Ouvroir de Litte'rature Potentielle...the 16th century had left off. The Oulipo (whose international group would eventually...

Automatism, arbitrariness, and the Oulipian author.(Ouvroir de litterature...

French Forum;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......dismissive (or even disgusted) reactions to the Oulipo are based on instinctive distaste of the...Laurent Jenny, for his part, argues that the Oulipo furthers the twentieth-century tendency...of the author. (7) Even a member of the Oulipo, Jean Queval, expressed concern during...

Mille et un Sentiments (premiers cents).(Poem)

Prairie Schooner;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...after Herve Le Tellier's Mille pensees (premiers cents) 1. I feel as though something is terribly wrong. 2. I feel as though when I try to explain myself...

Canis Major: introducing Raymond Queneau.

The Review of Contemporary Fiction;  September 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......and Francois Le Lionnais originated the Oulipo (Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle, or...subcommittee of the College de `Pataphysique. The Oulipo's members were a varied group made up...already been invented in the past, the Oulipo simply qualified the text in question...

As easy as ABC

The Independent - London;  June 7, 1994 ;     700+ words ......which he was the most illustrious member: OuLiPo, the Ouvroir de litterature potentielle...those British readers who haven't heard of OuLiPo may well have heard of its most celebrated...American ever to have been admitted to OuLiPo, and a close friend of Perec's) will be...