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...Kerr, author of many successful novels and plays, says that she reads every soup-can and jamjar label in her kitchen before settling down to her typewriter. Many a writer focuses on almost anything but his task-for example, on the Coast and Geodetic Survey of Maine's Frenchman Bay and Bar Harbor, stimulating his imagination with names like Googins Ledge, Blunts Pond, Hio Hill and Burnt Porcupine, Long Porcupine, Sheep Porcupine and Bald Porcupine islands...
...political cliche that "the Frenchman carries his heart on the left but his wallet on the right." Traditionally, many bourgeois vote left or at least threaten to do so as a protest. However, they quickly return to the center or right if it appears that a leftist has a chance of winning. Thus Mitterrand's best opportunity for a victory will come on the first ballot, while Chaban and Giscard fight among themselves for Gaullist support; in a runoff, he would face a unified Gaullist front...
...loss of national will inevitably saps the decisiveness needed for international cooperation. The danger, notes a French Eurocrat, is that "Europe is not irreversible. This situation cannot continue beyond the end of the year without killing us." Adds another Frenchman: "In the terms of psychoanalytical treatment, we will either find our equilibrium or this will lead to suicide...
...Merle, a Frenchman who teaches English at the Sorbonne, is shrewd in his development of Comte as a benevolent Machiavellian. To counter a marauding band armed with a bazooka, Comte sets about re-creating the art of war. To deal with a neighboring town of survivors ruled by a pseudo priest named Fulbert, Comte recovers the art of diplomacy and the balance of power...
...performed over the past 15 years by Dr. Georges Burou, who specializes in the male-to-female type. Most of his patients have usually lived as women long before they go to Casablanca to take what he calls "the last, irrevocable step." But, insists Dr. Burou, a plain-speaking Frenchman: "I don't change men into women. I transform male genitals into genitals that have a female aspect. All the rest is in the patient's mind...