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...year's work. Parallel Lives. In anthropology, students may concentrate on underdeveloped areas. In law, they may study the unification of legal systems and the transition from national to supranational law. In history, they study what Brugmans calls "parallel lives"-e.g., the careers of Richelieu, Bismarck, Cavour. "A Frenchman," says Brugmans, "reacts favorably to Richelieu and unfavorably to Bismarck. Yet these men accomplished the same task in roughly the same way." In five years the college has had only one failure. A young Frenchman whose father was killed by the Nazis found that he just could not live with...
...three years . . . ? The French Academy, which consists of 40 members, took 40 years to compile their dictionary." "Sir," replied Johnson, "thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see; 40 times 40 is 1600. As three to 1600, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman...
...were just about ready to quit. "Warmest compliments . . . The Fatherland is proud of you," Diem signaled his young soldiers-but into the midst of free South Viet Nam's first small victory wheeled a black French Citroen, a French general inside it. "Cease fire! Assume defensive positions!"the Frenchman ordered the astonished Vietnamese...
...HIDDEN RIVER, by Storm Jameson (244 pp.; Harper; $3), is a novel about sleeping dogs and their fierce awakenings. During World War II, a young Frenchman is betrayed to the Nazis by an unknown person and executed as a Resistance leader. Five years later, his widowed old mother and two of his cousins still live in the sunny, sleepy Loire Valley, trying not to remember too much. Into this setting comes a messenger of the Fates, in the guise of a British intelligence officer who used to work with the dead Resistance hero. The officer cannot rest until the last...
...Buttermilk. Once a barter agreement has paved the way, the Germans have made the best of it with service and salesmanship. "If you inquire in France, the U.S., Great Britain and Germany about buying machinery," says a Caracas businessman, "the Frenchman doesn't answer, the U.S. company sends a catalogue, the Briton assures you his product is the best, and two Germans show up and ask, 'Where do we put it?' " In capitals and backlands throughout Latin America, German salesmen in belted jackets, speaking good Spanish or Portuguese, take pride in a three-word motto: "Sell, sell...