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(Encyclopedia) Debussy, Claude AchilleDebussy, Claude Achilleklôd äshēlˈ dəbüsēˈ [key], 1862–1918, French composer, exponent of musical impressionism. He studied for 11 years at the Paris…
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Claude BrownAge: 64 writer who vividly chronicled his experiences growing up poor in Harlem alongside drug dealers, murderers, and prostitutes in his 1965 bestseller Manchild in the Promised…
Claude RetherfordAge: 72 former University of Nebraska basketball star who was named mayor of Tulare, Calif. in 1992; a native of French Lick, Ind., Retherford was named Big 7 MVP in 1949,…
Claude SimonAge: 91 Nobel Prize–winning French novelist who was a leader of the nouveau roman (new novel) movement. His challenging books, which include La Route de Flandres (The Flanders…
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