Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into this list of hopefuls, the intellectual, left-wing L'Express last week introduced a weirdly different suggestion. It claimed that De Gaulle's own choice as his successor is none other than Henri d'Orleans, 54, Comte de Paris, descendant of King Henri IV, and Pretender to the throne of France. L'Express pointed to the warm personal friendship between the count and De Gaulle, recalled that le grand Charles's earliest political sympathies were monarchist, and noted that the Count's Gaullist leanings had made him a target of a bombing...
Only trouble with this vision is that L'Express hates De Gaulle and would be the last paper to know what he is thinking. Paris-Presse characterized the story as little more than "a good question to toss out to get a dinner conversation going...
...Beaverbrook knew precisely what he wanted. Both as publisher and politician, his career has been devoted to a single, quixotic goal, the creation of an Empire-wide economic union; he admits cheerfully that he bought the then bankrupt Daily Express for this "sole and only purpose." He realized that he would never convert Lloyd George to the cause of Empire free trade. So, working behind the scenes like a Machiavellian elf, Beaverbrook applied his charm, wealth and printing presses to the destruction of his old colleague...
Best of all, the next film, From Russia With Love, is already under way, and there should be eight more after that. Looking ahead the cultist's mouth waters with prospects of death struggles on the Orient Express and feverish rendezvous with Vesper and Pussy Galore. Even the laymen seemed to like it last night, and as one poppet murmured on her way out of the theatre, "That's one limey who gets me where I live...
While Wald pointed out important similarities between artistic and scientific investigation he also noted a major difference: "Science is organized knowledge. Art, whatever its intrinsic ends, express the beliefs, aspirations, and emotions of the whole culture. The one is a severely limited, the other an unlimited, enterprise. From this point of view, the artist in the university takes on something of the position of the philosopher. His is the voice through which all of us must speak...