Word: chimeras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gabrielle is the ancient Chimera brought to life-the head of a lioness, clawlike hands, a goatish nature. When Jacquemar first glimpses this temptress, "her beauty aroused in him an irresistible, nameless thirst which, if it was sexual, seemed to endow sexuality with a new role in the world." Coolly, she insists on her innocence in l'affaire Gouffe and puts to rout all of Policeman Goron's neatly assembled evidence. Protectors rise on every side: prominent lawyers, wealthy men, the demonstrating street mobs of Paris and Marseille. Her luckless partner goes off to the guillotine, but triumphant...
Something New. On questions even remotely connected with the fading chimera of colonialism, these disparate groupings invariably vote together in the U.N. But on major noncolonial issues, such as Hungary, Tibet and the reunification of Korea, they almost always split. In the annual hassle over admission of Red China to the U.N., the Afro-Asians in the past two General Assembly sessions have divided three ways: 13 or 14 nations for admission, eleven opposed and four abstaining...