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...author animates dreary economics lessons with did-you-know facts. For example it was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase "survival of the fittest." The assembly line was not invented by Henry Ford but by an anonymous Frenchman who increased pin production tenfold by instituting the division of labor at his factory. Paper money is of pure Yankee lineage. When Massachusetts soldiers returned from action in the French and Indian War in 1690 they were paid not in coin but in promissory notes that could be traded for goods. The perverse alchemy by which governments turned gold...
...book, the man with these radical ideas emerges as a charming, courtly Frenchman who proved singularly attractive to women. One major figure in the Lukases' story is Lucile Swan, a well-to-do American sculptress separated from her husband. She talked long hours in Peking with the priest and eventually became embittered at his total commitment to celibacy. Teilhard could willingly suffer the privations of expeditions into the northwestern wastes of China. But he seemed more at home attending salon gatherings with personalities ranging from Biologist Julian Huxley to Actress Linda Darnell...
...Chirac 96 times during his speech, by all accounts called to mind the Frenchmen who have found anti-reform, authoritarian appeals attractive in the past, particularly during the pre-World War II depression. France is again suffering a severe economic crisis; after a decade of industrial boom, the average Frenchman is faced with bewildering jumps in both inflation and unemployment. The "little guy" has become fed up, and Chirac is capitalizing on this despair...
Jacques Chirac is in a hurry. He always has been. Of all the mannerisms that reveal him, perhaps none is more telling to a Frenchman's taste than the way he eats: furiously and fast, raising only the question of how much he savors as he dines...
With two less-than-glowing adaptations of Moliere comedies in town, the old Frenchman must be doing some pretty high-speed spinning in the grave. The Boston Repertory Theatre features a contemporary version of The Misanthrope; the production inspires antipathy not towards mankind in general but towards one in particular; the director. Scapino! at the Loeb fares much better; George Hamlin's skilled direction turns an uneven collection of actors into a smooth comic troupe...