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...Spartacus; the line moved slowly not because of a lack of seats, but because each moviegoer was frisked for gun, knife or bomb before admittance. At sidewalk cafes, no one turned at the familiar wailing siren of an ambulance racing to Babel-Oued or Belcourt or Climat de France, where someone?European or Moslem?lay wounded or dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: The Not So Secret Army | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...Sides of a Christian. Schuman used a phrase last week which was a clue to his plans, his talents and his character. He declared that France must acquire "le climat psychologique de la baisse," which could be interpreted as "the art of sinking." For Schuman's job was not only to deflate prices; he had to deflate the grand illusions, the bitterness, the suppressed (and sometimes open) hysteria, and indeed the sense of frustrated tragedy which France had acquired in three wars and on which both the Communists and De Gaulle thrive. Schuman had to show France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Art of Sinking | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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