Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Homme et L'Hommerie. Raised by Roman Catholic missionaries in Mindouli, 100 miles west of Brazzaville, Youlou started his career as a simple parish priest. But he had always had a penchant for politics. Over the protests of his archbishop, he decided to run for the French National Assembly. He was forbidden by his archbishop to say Mass, though he still wears black or white cassocks, topped by a Homburg. He lost the election, but while his opponent went off to Paris, the abbé's admirers refused to believe that he had lost, and took their problems...
...unheated Moscow tenement house. There he received anonymous gifts of food, rather like a Hindu holy man before whose hovel little dishes are placed by unseen hands. During the Terror of '36-'37, he lost his "living space" and food-ration privileges. When Red Army Marshal Tukhachevsky et al. were executed, Pasternak was asked to sign a resolution of approval, and refused: "My wife was pregnant. She cried and begged me to sign, but I couldn't ... I abhorred all this blood ... It was, I was told later, my colleagues who saved me indirectly. No one dared...
...mort de Britannicus." C'est aussi l'histoire de la naissance du monstre Neron dont on ne connait pas la nature quand le rideau se leve. Tandis que Neron decouvre son genie, la tragedie est rendue sensible par le conflit des gouverneurs, Burrhus, soldat honnete si maladroit, et Narcisse, anguille glissante...
...representation bien vivante. Ce n'est pas Racine tel que l'on acoutume de le voir. Il est joue avec une force, vraiment une ferocite, qui laisse le spectateur lui-meme epuise apres quelques scenes. Mais c'etait une force quelquefois ingouvernable--chez Marguerite Jamois (Agrippine), Hubert Noel (Brittanicus), et Jacques Francois (Neron, un monstre ne peut-etre plutot qu'un monstre naissant); une force pas toujours accordee a la tension si forte des lignes alexandrins eux-memes. Mais dans le role de Narcisse, Raymond Gerome a ete merveilleux, une belle anguille, avec un sens si exact de la modulation...
...outburst of student rioting and anti-Communist statements that followed Mao's abortive "Hundred Flowers" attempt at liberalization last year (TIME, May 27 et seq.) was clear evidence that the regime had forfeited the enthusiasm of the intellectuals. Mao's response-to treat all intellectuals as suspect and force them into "remedial" manual labor by the hundreds of thousands-may produce obedience, but hardly provides the climate for intellectual creativity. The great, vast public, foreign observers report, seems more resigned to its lot, and even grateful for the orderliness that keeps warlords from swooping down on farmers...