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...broken beer bottle. Cynics blamed the apathy on the heat which blanketed Paris as well as Bonn, but a more accurate explanation was that everyone knew that the treaties would pass with a comfortable majority. Not even the French National Assembly could ignore the cold logic of Socialist Deputy Alain Savary: "The choice which France has is not between the European Community and the status quo, but between the European Community and solitude...
Biggs' program constituted a virtual historical survey of organ styles, going from the late 16th-century Byrd through Sweelinck, Louis Couperin, Bach, Handel, Soler, Schumann and Franck to Jehan Alain, who was tragically killed in his youth during World...
When Johnson took over, the university had few things to boast about. It had a flourishing medical school, and its faculty included such teachers as Philosopher Alain Locke, the first and only Negro Rhodes scholar. But it had little money, and when Mordecai Johnson appeared before Congress to ask for more, one Representative bluntly warned him: "Young man, we may as well come to an understanding. We have no obligation to consider the needs of Howard." Johnson took his case to the Department of the Interior, persuaded Assistant Secretary Edward Finney that the Government had a "moral obligation...
...some five years ago (reportedly after a conversation with Bing Crosby), a Parisian antique dealer named Alain Bernardin got to ruminating over the difference between U.S. art forms and those of his own country. "There is nothing," he concluded, "as horrible as a naked woman standing stock still on a stage with an idiotic look on her face." Crazy. With this thought to goad him, and a stock of U.S. period pieces to lend atmosphere, Bernardin opened a night club in the style of the wild and woolly West, complete with waiters in candy-striped shirtsleeves, banjo players...
Fernandel first appears as Edouard Saint Forget, the father of quintuplets, named in order of birth, Alain, Bernard, Charles, Desire, and Etienne. When they are forty years old and widely scattered, their godfather sets out to reunite them, with an eye toward enhancing the glory, and the commercial success, of a village fair. Their personalities, naturally, all prove to be completely different, and most of them have strange occupations. One is the most famous beautician in France. Another is a lonely hearts journalist, writing under the name Aunt Nicole. The others are a ship captain, a priest, and a window...