Word: gallicisms
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Incest is the issue in Louis Malle's new comedy, even though the film manages to reach an ending that has all the simple-minded cheeriness of an updated Gallic episode of Leave it to Beaver. Witness: 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier, shoes in hand, tiptoes into his room after spending the night with a new girl-friend. He freezes when he spots, waiting for him in the room, his two older brothers and his father--whose threatening look demands an explanation for his son's absence. While Laurent is still standing in awkward silence, his mother enters, sizes...
...history; of pneumonia; in Hampton, Va. Weaned on the rousing reminiscences of Confederate veterans, Virginia-born "Chesty"-so called because he always walked like a pouter pigeon-was often described as a born combat leader. According to legend, he went into battle with a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked in his duffel bag. Volunteering as a private in World War I, Puller was commissioned at 20; he first saw action battling bandits in Haiti and Nicaragua in the 1920s and '30s, when he earned the first two of his five Navy Crosses. In World...
...combines Gallic charm with acerbic wit. As a working musician, he practices remarkable exactness and discipline. As a bachelor of 46, he is free to rise at 5 each morning to compose, and he often holds work meetings in his apartment at 8, thereafter running through as many as three rehearsals during the day. Boulez's mastery of conducting the modern repertory-from Debussy and Stravinsky to Webern and Olivier Messiaen-is untouchable. Next week he will start taking small groups of instrumentalists to Greenwich Village to proselytize among the hip young (TIME, Feb. 22). He also intends...
...Boulanger swiftly, humanely and intelligently democratized, reorganized and re-equipped France's demoralized army. Like Dwight David Eisenhower in 1952, he became, almost overnight and with little effort on his part, the center of a whirlwind political force. "Boulangism" offered not politics but panaceas. Resurrect Gallic glory. Restore the lost provinces. Inaugurate an income tax. Give France a powerful presidency (which another general would do in 1958). Whatever it was, the general's adherents suggested, Georges would...
...cleanliness benevolently imposed in public institutions would rehabilitate the criminal, conquer insanity and resurrect the indigent. Social Philosophers Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave Auguste de Beaumont noted after an official look at New World progress that Americans had made a profession out of "philanthropy." With a touch of Gallic skepticism, they added the phrase "which to them seems the remedy for all the evils of society...