Word: gallicly
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...this summer when contractors began excavations for three high-rise commercial buildings, a cultural center and a 2,000-car underground garage on vacant land behind the city's bourse (stock exchange). Almost immediately, the ramparts became the objective of a new civil conflict that made up in Gallic fury what it lacked in Roman firepower...
Holdovers from the 1965-66 season include smash musicals-Fiddler on the Roof, Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and Man of La Mancha-plus one comedy, the Gallic sex farce, Cactus Flower. Jean-Claude van Itallie's America Hurrah meanwhile continues to provide intellectual and dramatic stimulation off-Broadway...
...later, the same cast of characters took part in one of the most extraordinary Cabinet meetings in French history. Such eminent scholars as Novelist Andre Malraux, Law Professor Edgar Faure and Poetry Anthologist Georges Pompidou had to sit in solemn silence while the general delivered himself of his peculiarly Gallic version of Canadian history...
...Inter will give up its modest $800,000 annual subsidy at year's end -but not its Gallic formula for a large income: outrageously high fares. Officially, the line excuses them on the ground that high fuel costs help run operating expenses 30% above those of similar, U.S. airlines. Privately, one Air Inter staffer frankly admits that "80% of our passengers are businessmen. They don't care what the fare is -it's the company that pays...
Into this vacuum of thought, structuralism has reared its guidon all over the Gallic intellectual landscape. A new school of fiction has risen with the declared intent of consulting man's subconscious intellectual infrastructure rather than the visible rules of literary composition. The function of writing itself-rather than message, story or character-becomes the novelist's purpose. The formlessness of structural fiction stems from a reliance on the creative inspiration of the unconscious-the hidden intellectual code. At an even more arcane level, literary critics are using structuralism to redefine-and enhance-the critical role...