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...Leopard. "If we want things to stay as they are, things have to change." The Prince of Salina (Burt Lancaster) abruptly stops shaving and turns to stare in irritation at his favorite nephew (Alain Delon). Can Tancredi seriously mean to suggest that he, Salina of Sicily, should lick the boots of the new bourgeoisie? The prince is a proud man, as proud as the Leopard ramping on his princely scutcheon. But he is not a fool; he knows as well as Tancredi that in the spring of 1860 bourgeois boots are on the march from the Alps to Africa. Garibaldi...
...mouse of an individual's deformity. But Grass has set the jaws of his literary mousetrap much wider than that. Just as a straight chronicle of the sometimes nasty habits and high hopes of boyhood, his story should become a minor classic like Kipling's Stalky & Co., Alain Fournier's romantic pre-World War I The Wanderer, and John Knowles's A Separate Peace. No one, at any rate, excels Grass in one prerequisite for writing about adolescence-an eye for the entirely incongruous and often grimy details. On a half-submerged minesweeper in Danzig harbor...
...with many another traveler before him, being a tourist brought out the worst in Michel Butor. A gifted disciple of French antinovelist Alain Robbe-Grillet (TIME, July 20, 1962), Butor is notable because he uses a different technique with every book and turns out intense and interesting fiction just the same. But in recounting his recent six-month tour of the U.S.-and in switching from novels to what might loosely be called nonfiction-Butor has produced a whopping-bad nonbook. It presents America in a nightmarish jumble of road signs, city names, ornithological notes and grim historical oddments...
...very pleased to read your story on Dr. Alain Enthoven, since he exemplifies the top talent we seek in our quest for quality careerists to meet the many demands for excellence in Government today. I wish the story had mentioned that Dr. Enthoven was one of five recent (June 12) recipients of the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service -the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a career civil servant. At age 32, Dr. Enthoven is the youngest of the 31 careerists who have received this high honor to date...
...these for inclusion in his directory. Even in apostasy, he says, the Gaullist "link is indestructible. Excluded, exiled, in rebellion, Jacques Soustelle remains a member of the circle." But ironically, such ranking spokesmen for present-day Gaullist policy as Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville and Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte are excluded for lacking the proper credentials...