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Anatomy of Power. But in 1572 the balance of confusion at last tipped toward a resolution-or so it seemed. France's most influential Protestant was Admiral Gaspard Coligny, a military hero and a onetime condemned traitor (in Catherine's vacillating France, it was easy to be both). Coligny demanded an immediate war with the Catholic Philip, and at the moment had the ear of Catherine's moody, weakbrained son, King Charles...
...candidates for the novitiate are Gaspard (Don) d'Andelot Belin and Thomas Coates. Brother-in-law of McGeorge Bundy (former Dean of the College), Belin is a Yale graduate, a member of the law firm of Choate, Hall, & Stewart, and a very active participant in Cambridge projects. Coates, a lawyer with John Hancock, is a member of the NAACP and has also been very active in the community...
...country was dumfounded. Outgoing Premier Ahmed Daouk pleaded wet-eyed for 90 minutes. Interior Minister Edmond Gaspard cried: "Had I the power, I would deny you the right to resign." Two prominent politicians got the news at bathing beaches and, dragging their robes, galloped across the sand to the nearest telephones. Shopkeepers in Che-hab's home town of Jounieh closed down to protest the resignation, and churches of his faith (Maronite Roman Catholic) tolled their bells in sorrow. Politicians kept Chehab's telephone jangling and pounded on the door of his Jounieh home...
...Gaspard befriends a runaway boy who says he is searching for a lost homeland, but it soon turns out that the boy is really a girl. Plagued by an evil servant and a lunatic film producer, aided by an addled deaf boy and a family of wandering musicians, Gaspard and the girl search for the vanished "territory" of her childhood. Because this is a fairy tale, they find it, and it proves to be the wandering carnival world of Gaspard's parents, a world where the horizon "retreats unceasingly in time and space . . . and where we never find beauty...
...because this is a spoof of the strict and stuffy, the step-by-steppers and the serious-takers of life. Author Dhôtel winds up his ramble with the mocking hawker's chant of Gaspard's papa: "Step up here sir; don't be afraid of life. Don't take one tie; don't take ten, take twenty, and have one to your taste every morning of your life! And hear this, hear this, the most necessary and inevitable purchase of all your days, for the picayune supplementary cost of sixty-five francs, this...