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Born of a Jewish Alsatian father and a British mother of Welsh-Irish descent, he spoke four languages at five...
Sajer can write flowery asides to the non-German civilian: "Shall I ever deserve pardon? . . . Can I ever forget?" But his real peer group then-and now -is that absolutely disciplined iron man, the German soldier. As an Alsatian (he even wrote his memoir in French), he admires with the special fervor of the semi-outsider...
...India. When a proctor at Satna College in Madhya Pradesh complained that students were copying examination answers from their textbooks, the students staged a minor riot. At Mainpuri a proctor who caught students cribbing was hacked to death with knives. In Gorakhpur, a high school student brought his homicidal Alsatian dog to bare his fangs at any teacher who tried to interfere with his right to cheat. Cheating, of course, is not much of an issue on U.S. campuses these days. With all the student unrest and closed-down universities, there are far fewer exams available for the taking...
...this is just water off the oil skins of François Spoerry, the man responsible for the Riviera's most spectacular new marina. Spoerry, 56, is an Alsatian architect and boat nut. He bought his swamp (for $600,000) in 1966; he dredged it and built the quays; he designed the houses and has been putting them up ever since. "I have tried to integrate the boat into the life of the vacation house," he says. "I built Port Grimaud for people who love sailing and the sea." And naturally, for profit...
Excess of Sympathy. Born Emile Herzog, son of an Alsatian Jewish industrialist, Maurois fled the family textile works and served as a liaison officer to the British army during World War I before taking up his writing career. Despite his gifts of dialogue and invention, his fiction existed within the bounds of bourgeois convention. "I wrote about a rather limited world," he admitted. When he tried to do otherwise, he produced clichés. The interplanetary observers of The Life of Man saw human beings behaving like ants. In The Departure, the dead queue up to board airplanes. Typically, Maurois...