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...last five years as tourism has grown, the Trib has boosted subscriptions 90% and newsstand sales 34%, is so much a European fixture that it appears regularly behind the Iron Curtain, on Polish and Yugoslavian kiosks. It charges almost the same ad rates as Paris' Le Figaro (circ. 475,000), yet steamship companies and resorts are eager to do business with the Trib...
Exciting the jaded tastes of record buyers is becoming increasingly difficult, and one approach is the dazzling package. Example: RCA Victor is releasing good versions of such standard items as The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, and The Force of Destiny (monaural and stereophonic) in impressive boxes with brass fittings and color-dripping illustrations. Another and more daring approach is to look for obscure, rarely or never-recorded works. Part of the recent growth of operatic exotica is London's Giuditta (three mono and stereo), the principal serious effort of Vienna's operetta master, Franz Lehar...
Sorbonne Philosophy Professor Jean Guitton rushed to the front page of Le Figaro to cry shame, because "the oral, properly understood, is a delicious moment." Guitton fondly recalled questions from his own orals ("Monsieur, what was the color of pigs in Homer's day?"), remembered his anti-French error of telling his examiners that brainy men complement each other ("No, Monsieur. When intelligences are united, they subtract from each other"). Warmly supporting Guitton in defense of the oral. Author Paul ( The Innocent Tenant) Guth wrote: "In a world more and more dedicated to the quantitative, the oral...
Died. André Siegfried, 83, French intellectual, authority on English-speaking peoples (America Comes of Age), columnist for Le Figaro, professor at Paris' Institute of Political Science, member of the sanctified French Academy; in Paris. In America, wrote Siegfried, "equality reigns because men do not serve other men but serve a principle-production. They do not serve an individual master, they serve the community. It is quite accurate to call America the New World; for it is really a new world-another world." Of the race in general he once said: "Enough people take the right train...
...their ladies. "We must defend Paris," he said, "against the hatless." With full dress there could be no compromise: a dinner jacket was so informal it was a "masterpiece of vulgarity and ugliness." The live-modern age could not be forgiven because it had "killed dilettantism." Tastefully, Le Figaro said of his death: "Andre de Fouquières leaves Parisian life at the dawn of the epoch of severity. Animator of so many fetes and rejoicings of other times, he disappears as if by discretion...