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Throughout the play Friedman lances pet hates with an ardor so indiscriminate as to seem bracingly honest. The air is unfogged by any pious cant about brotherly love as he tongue-twits Jews, Negroes, Babbitts, Frenchmen, Chinese, Yugoslavs, white liberals, black militants, wives, husbands, thieves and psychiatrists. From this last and presumably lowest shelf of humanity, the playwright produces a fatuously brain-shrunk specimen who brings his patient-paramour to the chateau. She in turn treats Manhattan's theatergoers to the sight of their first topless actress, but it must ungallantly be recorded that the lady's mammaries...
...local elixir in favor of spectacularly overpriced bottles of Scotch. Now Spain's Agriculture Minister, Adolfo Díaz-Ambrona, 59, has appealed to his countrymen to ease "the problem of domestic underconsumption." Noting that the Spaniards consume only half as much wine per capita as the Frenchmen, the government is starting a huge advertising campaign for wine-and doubling the import duties on Scotch...
HEIFETZ: SAINT-SAENS, SONATA NO. 1 (RCA Victor). As Professor Higgins once observed, Frenchmen don't actually care what they do, only how they pronounce it. And Charles Camille Saint-Saens is nothing if not French. "The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music," he once declared. Most of his music, including Sonata No. 1 For Piano ' and Violin, is more form than substance. Still, Jascha Heifetz plays it well, and includes satisfying little pieces by four other...
Once firmly ensconced in the Elysée, though, De Gaulle granted Algeria its independence. Most Frenchmen have by now accepted the fact; not Bidault, who fled France in 1962 to organize a second resistance movement-this time against De Gaulle. Bidault disclaims any responsibility for the terrorism that accompanied the Algerie Française campaign; nevertheless, he was charged with treason, and for five years he wandered in quixotic exile in Europe and Brazil. Now living in Belgium on the understanding that he will not engage in politics, he still hopes to negotiate his return to France. This book...
Frenchwomen and Frenchmen had rarely seen their President so agitated. His hands darted and swept to punctuate his thoughts; his shoulders pumped with energy as he dismissed his critics by calling them "apostles of decline," men who belong to "what one must call the school of national renunciation...