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Roughly, the novel traces the rise to power and prominence of Cas Hauser--an amoral, homosexual, and nearsighted young man on his way up. His first decision is to be married, for he senses that a beautiful young woman who is willing to seduce his professors may be a social asset. He courts and wins Aelia Crispus--the dark-haired, olive skinned, ruby lipped, full breasted, and phi beta kappa-ed Biochemistry major at Radcliffe. And to Cas's grateful surprise, he courts and wins her without ever even having to kiss...
Hauser's plans are set back when Aelia refuses to seduce his thesis advisor. Her explanation: "'But Cas, darling,' she purred, appraising her luxuriant body in the curved mirror she had installed to surround her bed, 'I thought you knew. I mean, I wouldn't sleep with... with...a m-a-n.' She oozed the word through tightly clenched teeth, as if to bite the life out of it." Needless to say, Aelia seduces the professor's wife and Cas seduces the professor, and before long Cas has tenure...
...live one day more than the day I am going to die." He told the rally of 20,000 Spanish-speaking New Yorkers that "I came for a suffering, backward and hungry Latin America." His aim: "Humanism-liberty with bread." The crowd took up the chant, "Fidel Castro! Fidel Cas...
Love Is My Profession (Raoul J. Levy; Kingsley International) is easily the peep-showiest, cheap-thrillingest of all the Brigitte Bardot pictures-and probably the best. Topnotch Whodunit Writer Georges Simenon furnished the novel (En Cas de Malheur) on which the film is based. Jean Gabin was hired to top the title. Actress Bardot was signed to bring up the rear in the box-office battle. And the slickest of the big French directors, Claude Autant-Lara (Devil in the Flesh, Rouge et Noir), has contrived to combine all these expensive, volatile elements into a smutty story that is technically...
Madame Duhamel also found fault with the method by which grammar has been taught in the past. She asserted, "There has been too much emphasis on the cas special, and subjects such as the order of pronouns have been taught in patches over a period of several months instead of in one concentrated lesson." Madame Duhamel, who taught French to foreign students at the Sorbonne in Paris for 12 years, felt that grammar should be over-simplified if necessary in order to get across to the student its essentially logical pattern...