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Ever since the British burned Joan of Arc. martyrdom by foreigners has been pure glory for a Frenchman. Hard-pressed by critics of his Algerian policy and urgently in need of tax funds to plug his cracking war economy. France's Premier Guy Mollet last week chose to risk glorious extinction, at the stake of the U.N. Security Council rather than be buried in the ignominy of domestic issues...
Matisse's The Conservatory came as another pleasant re-encounter. Few paintings, even by Matisse, match the lucid freshness of this canvas. And, as an interesting contrast, Three Bathers combines the Frenchman's characteristic gracious ease with a monumentality as structural as his bronze, Seated Nude...
...asked to serve again) were too busy welcoming French President René Coty to Rome to give any attention to forming a new government. Though Coty's state visit caught them in a Cabinet crisis, Italians were not embarrassed. "After all," said a Roman politician, "Coty is a Frenchman. He will understand...
...Hamlet (TIME, April 1, 1940), Faulkner told how Flem Snopes, a repellent specimen of white trash, sidled into Frenchman's Bend. Now, in The Town (the second book in an intended trilogy), Faulkner takes Flem Snopes from his earlier triumphs over the steppingstones of other men's dead selves to higher things in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha's county seat (which closely resembles Oxford, Miss., where Novelist Faulkner has lived for most of his life...
Faulkner's book continues the involuted garrulity of its predecessors into new labyrinths of confusion. There is all the usual apparent clumsiness and a kind of deliberate illiteracy, e.g., characterizing the Snopeses in general. Faulkner mixes five metaphors in about half a sentence: "[The Snopeses] accreted in from Frenchman's Bend into the vacuum behind the first one's next advancement by that same sort of osmosis by which . . . they had covered Frenchman's Bend, the chain unbroken, every Snopes in Frenchman's Bend moving up one step, leaving the last slot in the bottom...