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...paves," declare un autre: nous ne sommes evidement pas parmi de graves doctrinaires. Dans l'ambiance febrile et joyeuse de mai meme les minettes du 16eme aident a la construction des barricades; a la colere, et a la passion anti-gouvernementale se mele un desir incoherent de participer au defi solidaire de la jeunesse. Derriere la naivete du celebre "J'ai quelque chose a dire mais je ne sais pas quoi" se trouve un besoin inarticule de s'unir aux autres, de s'echapper d'un anonymat individuel. "Le graffiti en soi devenait liberte," nous explique Besancon dans la preface...
...strike was about to produce an inflationary pay increase. In addition, Britain has been hurt because other countries have lately battled inflation by boosting their interest rates, thereby drawing money out of Britain. Also hurting Britain is the U.S.'s drive to moderate its balance-of-payments defi cit. U.S. companies are repatriating their funds from abroad, including some held in Britain, and are borrowing more overseas; this year U.S. firms will in crease their borrowing in Europe by one-third, to $1.5 billion, leaving less money for Europeans to invest in the United Kingdom...
According to Charles Baudelaire's defi-nition-by-negation of a superior man-"He is not a specialist"-Benjamin Franklin was one of the most superior men who ever lived. He was also, according to Phillips Russell's widely read biography, "the first civilized American." Superior or merely civilized, he certainly spread himself. Almost everyone now knows that he invented the lightning rod and bifocal glasses, that he-founded the Saturday Evening Post and the Philosophical Society of America, but even the brighter college students may be surprised to learn that he was a glass manufacturer who designed...
...First defi went up in A entry yesterday when a Junior posted a notice to decorators stating that nobody is going to pain his room until after examinations, June...
...nearly half the interest rates she would have had to pay at home. Second reason for the loan is the belief of every Frenchman that whatever may or may not come of the Roosevelt-Herriot-MacDonald conversations in Washington, U. S. isolation as a world power is defi- nitely over. What this might mean for France they could not yet tell, but threats of further U. S. inflation had every French statesman, every businessman worried. Frenchmen, badly burned by their own inflation of 1924-25. would throw out by nightfall any government that suggested a parallel move. In effect...