Word: dreyfusism
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...prison. He thanked his lawyer, joined some relatives at a motel, and held an impromptu press conference. Calm and smiling, he said he might like to work for the Peace Corps or a clinic in India. When a reporter remarked that he looked fit, he snapped bitterly: "I understand Dreyfus looked fit when he left Devil's Island...
...France's imposing showcase rose like a grandstand beside the Lagoon of Nations, now stands IBM's egg, poised above a fantastic forest of steel trees. Across the pool, hovers the huge coffin-on-props of the Bell Telephone building, designed by Harrison & Abramovitz and Henry Dreyfus...
...sale to Russia, and the U.S. parent is awaiting an export license to send $6,500,000 worth to Hungary. In the U.S. transaction with Russia, Cargill will dicker privately and separately with the Soviets, as will such other big dealers as Continental Grain Co., Bunge Corp. and Louis Dreyfus Corp. Cargill will then draw part of the wheat from its grain elevators (total capacity: 160 million bushels), also buy some fresh supplies from farmers and, in all probability, buy some more from the U.S. Government's wheat hoard of more than a billion bushels. Total costs...
Barry Goldwater but also Communist Gus Hall. The Cornell Daily Sun is free to complain about anything and usually does. Last summer it all but made a Dreyfus case out of a graduate student who got bounced for living with a professor's niece. His defense was the university's lack of specific regulations-how could he know he was sinning...
...unjust trial. But France boasts two famous instances in which a literary man with the national destiny on the tip of his tongue has appeared to sear the public conscience. Most celebrated is Emile Zola's "J'accuse," which helped reverse the verdict in l'affaire Dreyfus. Less well known but historically probably more significant was Voltaire's angry intervention in l'affaire Calas...