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Rather, Pourquoi Pas! explores with intelligence and subtlety the vagaries of human desire. With neither snickers nor excessive sentiment Serreau unfolds the relationship between two men and a woman. The homosexual bond between Louis and Fernand is accorded the same frankness and sensitivity as the heterosexual union with Alexa. The erotic interplay between the two men lays to rest the hoary cinematic cliche that the sight of two men kissing repulses women. Serreau's skill as director and Jean--Francois Robin's delicate photography present the embrace with a warm dignity...
...province learn English?as they frequently must to gain jobs or advance in them ?they begin to be weaned from their native language. Outside Quebec, Canada's scattered French-speaking minority regularly loses a large part of its younger generation to English-speaking North America. Says Quebecois Poet Fernand Ouellette: "In a milieu of bilingualism, there is no coexistence, there is only a continuous aggression of the language of the majority." Quebecois are particularly bitter because little effort is given to preserving their language in the rest of Canada. Quebec has traditionally provided comprehensive, tax-supported education and complete...
Last week Democratic Representative Fernand St Germain, chairman of a House banking subcommittee, sounded a battle cry for the reformers as he opened hearings on bank law enforcement, including the Lance case. St Germain called for "a serious and vigorous effort to improve the nation's banking codes," particularly in such back-scratching areas as "insider lending, tie-ins among banking institutions and the ease with which changes in bank control are financed." Said he: "The evidence I have seen to date leads me to believe that Bert Lance, his family and friends regarded the Calhoun First National Bank...
...State University of New York at Binghamton to pay homage to Braudel and his enduring love. English Scholars Peter Burke and Eric Hobsbawm arrived to offer tribute. Historians from Canada, The Netherlands and France sang Braudel's praises. The occasion: the inaugural conference of SUNY'S new Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations. It was the first major American recognition of French Historian Braudel-perhaps the most influential historian now at work and the author of the magnificent 1,375-page book, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World...
...magazine's readers was young Fernand Braudel, then a fledgling schoolteacher in Algiers. "I am someone without ambition," Braudel remarked to TIME'S Ellie McGrath. "My father was a mathematician and wanted me to be a mathematician, so studying history was an adolescent revolt against my father." Looking out across the Mediterranean and wondering what to work on for his doctoral dissertation, Braudel decided on King Philip. But "little by little," recalls Braudel, "Philip II attracted me less and less, and the Mediterranean more and more." There was also the influence of Febvre, who had himself done work...