Word: frenchmens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ALTHOUGH Schwarz-Bart is dealing with an epic subject at minimal length, telescoping action and using primitively direct means to etch his characters, he nowhere descends to type. The various slaves and Frenchmen are distinct individuals as well as symbols; a major reason for the purity of Solitude's anger is her heritage, developed beyond that of most other slaves. The fantasies of slave-owners are indictment enough without the glaze of the author's own rancor, and one of the oppressors is almost sympathetic, with strong psychological motivations for his actions as a slave-owner (his father had been...
Noisy leftist protests followed. Three Bruay citizens, including Jean-Pierre, staged a three-day hunger strike. But for a growing number of Frenchmen, the Bruay affair was beginning to look like a left-wing version of the Dreyfus case. Was Leroy being railroaded, they asked, because of his social position...
After the French Expeditionary Forces left Viet Nam in 1956, thousands of Frenchmen stayed on, as businessmen, priests, adventurers, smugglers and doctors, some for the best of reasons, some for the worst. Almost two decades later, the American military withdrawal from Viet Nam is complete-but an estimated 9,000 Americans have chosen to remain behind...
...deferments only up to the age of 21, instead of 25 as before. When the law was formulated by the Gaullists three years ago, many left-wing politicians supported it. They charged that deferments meant that working-class youths had to provide a disproportionate share of the 300,000 Frenchmen drafted every year...
...suspicions of the Gaullists were partially justified. As Le Canard Enchainé's film critic Michel Duran wrote: "You come out of the film not very proud to be one of those Frenchmen with a perpetual weakness for military men who offer themselves as a gift to France . . . Frenchmen, if you only knew that you are forever being cuckolded...