Word: fran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hands of tough Information Minister Jacques Soustelle, who has launched a series of radio, TV and newsreel presentations to explain the proposed constitution. To ensure that his message does not get garbled in transmission, Soustelle has already replaced some ten key members of the government-run Radio-Television FranÇaise. Increasingly, French radio, television and newsreels are becoming sycophantic in praise of De Gaulle. When a parliamentary committee accused Soustelle of imposing on France "unilateral and partial information," ex-Marxist Soustelle's brushoff reply to this accusation recalled to Figaro Soustelle's youthful training in Communist dialectic...
...Certain Smile (20th Century-Fox), like the film version of Françoise Sagan's earlier novel, Bonjour Tristesse, puts aside bored yawning, Sagan style, for well-bred panting, Hollywood style. In the book, precociously world-weary Dominique ho-hums her way through a pair of parallel love affairs, finding no lasting happiness or pleasure in either of them-only a wan, temporary escape from ennui. But Hollywood's Dominique (French Actress Christine Carere) is as pert and wholesome as a cheerleader in love with the football captain. So what if she spends a week on the Riviera...
When it appeared in France early this year, the book was a runaway bestseller (65,000 copies sold), generating shock waves of conscience. It was banned within weeks. Four leading men of letters-André Malraux, Roger Martin du Gard, François Mauriac, Jean-Paul Sartre-buried their political differences to dispatch a "solemn petition" to France's President René Coty asking the government to lift the ban on The Question and "condemn unequivocally the use of torture, which brings shame to the cause that it supposedly serves." Still illegal, sales of The Question have since soared...
...days," said Françoise (Bonjour Tristesse) Sagan, "it will get better.'' That was five months ago in Monte Carlo, and since then Françoise's ballet Le Rendez-Vous Manque (The Broken Date) has been panned from Switzerland to Scollay Square. Nevertheless, it has the gift of survival. Last week Manhattan balletomanes got a chance...
Ever since Paris was liberated, writers have felt the itch to put it back into a prison of their own special illusions. Of the latest, one is a bounding Basque named François-Regis Bastide, a 32-year-old Frenchman who served under General Leclerc (whose column was the first to drive into Nazi-held Paris). Another is an American who has built a rambling bastille of words in which meanings are thrown into dungeons, to be reached only through endless labyrinths of painstaking prose...