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Fiat or Citroën? Close up, some of the economic obstacles, too, become brutally visible. Cabled TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief André Laguerre last week: "It is only when the nations really start to talk about abolishing economic frontiers that the Belgian brewers think about all the beer that the Dutch can make. Or the watchmakers of Grenoble begin to agonize at the thought of competing with the Swiss. Or the owners and workers of Italy's Fiat auto plants point trembling fingers at the Renault and Citroën production in France. Or the French...
Such notes are by no means as brilliant as those found in the papers of other modern greats, like Henry James or André Gide, but they are remarkable in that they show from what banal themes and ordinary observations Chekhov developed his stories. When he writes, "A young man made a million marks, lay down on them, and shot himself," the reader is in the authentic Chekhov atmosphere. Occasionally, as in the letters, Chekhov drops his attitude of severe objectivity and speaks about himself in that humorously modest fashion that led Tolstoy to call him a wonderful man: "Medicine...
Latinos applauded, but only Peru's Victor Andrés Belaunde and two Nicaraguans shook the Secretary's hand. Everybody was a little stunned at Marshall's plain no on the question of U.S. economic aid. Said a Brazilian next morning: "For me, the conference ended yesterday...
...André has already acquired the occupational disease of Hollywood composers: a hurt attitude at the way other composers scorn them. Says he: "They don't realize what it is to compose 82 seconds of music for a guy falling downstairs&3151;when you have to have a drum when he hits the fourth step...
...also wants to do "something worth while." So far, he has composed music for a one-act ballet, a rhapsody for violin and orchestra. Adds André: "There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure...