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...Boswell was not easily discouraged. He saw Rousseau several more times, though the Frenchman threatened to have him keep his watch out on the table and allow him fifteen minutes. Boswell also brought his moral problems to Rousseau in spite of an unprecedented indifferences on the latter's part. Counseling Boswell was easy, however, as readers of his London Journal will remember: Rousseau advises him to leave the lady to her husband...
...been bound up with those of the occupied. Two hussars, Sanders and Saint-Anne, finally surrender unconditionally to a handsome, sensual girl named Rita. Sanders had met her in what was then a conventional way: he raped her. Sanders becomes Author Nimier's prototype of the fundamentally good Frenchman gone wrong. He is cynical, bitter, confused; he is also a great reader and a lover of Mozart. Big and tough, he is a terror with his weapons or his fists. To Rita, whose husband is a prisoner of the Russians, Sanders is a find. But so is Saint-Anne...
Western Europe's chief problem, he said last week, is no longer the dollar shortage. The lags in expansion and restrictions on trade are what most ails it. "The enemy is protectionism in all its forms," said he. In what is rare talk for a Frenchman, he denounced Europe's own high tariffs as "anachronistic and anti-economic...
...reaping commercial benefit from a purely "illusory independence," France set about jamming the station, and sent in technicians to build a new one. The Andorrans promptly slapped a fat import tax on all radio parts. The French countered by charging 1,000 francs for an exit visa for any Frenchman who wished to visit Andorra. Andorrans protested that the French were ruining their tourist trade...
...that could easily be lost in the whirl is Giovanni Verge's Little Novels of Sicily (Grove). Verga, who died in 1922, was one of Italy's great writers, and these strong, tender stories of life at its most universal levels are among his best. After Verga, Frenchman Gil Buhet's The Innocent Knights (Viking) may seem like Gallic fluff. Actually, it is a charming story about a gang of schoolboys who shut themselves up in a moated ruin until their unjust elders and schoolmasters are ready to treat them like human beings...