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It is easy to understand Anouilh's interest in this subject matter. The French have always enjoyed dramas that give free play to philosophical disputation. And modern French dramatists, with the shining example of Racine before them, have been especially drawn to ancient Greek legends. The trend started at the...
Johnson shrewdly defused disputation in advance by taking a flexible position on the touchy questions of undergraduate deferment and whether to replace or reorganize the system of local draft boards. Nor does he intend to rush out executive orders-as he has the power to do-to implement the lottery...
FRENCH DRAWINGS by Maurice Serullaz. 232 pages. New York Graphic Society. $37.50. An engaging trip through 19th century France as seen by artists from Prud'hon to Daumier. The book includes three drawings by Novelist Victor Hugo, who painted as fast and furiously as he wrote- leaving behind about...
At week's end, after endless disputation and hand wringing, an Afro-Asian committee voted to postpone the conference until Nov. 5. Infuriated, the Peking delegation charged that the summit had been "sabotaged" by "imperialists." The new site? Still Algeria.
Impaled and Trodden. It took him nearly 30 years, says O'Faolain, to free himself by "slow, tentative, instinctive" steps from the "soft smother of the provincial featherbed." The first step took him to the university, where he learned "the hot and vivid [Irish] pleasures of aimless disputation, of...