Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Preface for the Italian Edition, where the third and fourth letters were published for the first time, Camus explains: "I am contrasting two attitudes, not two nations, even if, at a certain moment in history, these two nations personified two enemy attitudes." And this is true, for the Resistance Frenchman, addressing a former comrade, is inclined to equate moral rectitude with winning wars, or at least to make the latter seem a result of the former. We know this is not always the case; in later years the writer himself was more detached. But inadequate as these pages might...
...weakened. Far more challenging would be Kennedy's Paris confrontation next month with France's Charles de Gaulle, who has called for drastic changes in NATO. Kennedy may promise De Gaulle a stronger voice in shaping the alliance's policy, perhaps offer to let a Frenchman succeed U.S. General Lauris Norstad as NATO's European commander...
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death, by Albert Camus. How much the world lost in the untimely death of this great Frenchman is all too apparent in these lucid and luminous essays...
Breathless (in French). A formless but practically flawless cubistic portrait of the Frenchman as a young punk...
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death, by Albert Camus. Sometimes called "the conscience of the age," the late great Frenchman lives up to that title in these lucid and luminous essays...