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...pulls Madeline out of the Seine is happily named Genevieve, and Genevieve comes to live in Miss Clavel's vine-covered school. She gets lost, and Artist Bemelmans goes on a gaily painted search for her through Montmartre, the Tuileries, Saint Germain des Prés, and other Parisian quarters where colors abound. Genevieve is duly restored to hearthside, and there, in a less-abiding imagination, the story would have to end. But Bemelmans knows his moppets, deftly sets up a new problem: each little girl naturally wants Genevieve all for her own. There is trouble and scrapping aplenty...
Military men in the uniforms of half a dozen different nations mingled with proud mothers and officials of France's Ministry of Education one day last week on the lawn of the old chateau of St. Germain-en-Laye, twelve miles northwest of Paris. A French military band finished the slow beat of Swanee River and swung into the lilting rhythm of Marching Through Georgia. It was the first "Commencement Day" for the international school set up this year for the children of SHAPE Village...
...boys & girls on the rolls. Now there are 148 students-Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Canadian, Dutch, French, British and American-ranging from four-year-olds to teenagers. When the school opens next fall, Headmaster Rene Tallard, who is also senior English teacher at the boys' high school in St. Germain, expects the enrollment to jump...
...Germain des Prés, on the Left Bank, long-haired men and short-haired women worked diligently to keep the cult going. Bebop boîtes, hairdos, beards, evening gowns, newspapers, cocktails, hot-dog stands became "existentialist." An under-tipped taxi driver would curse: "Espèce d'existentialiste." Existentialism became a familiar tourist attraction, like the Folies-Bergere. Sartre, increasingly successful and respectable, occasionally deplored the popularizations of his fad-he even felt compelled to move out of his favorite café, the Flore, to escape the tourists' vulgar stares. Last week existentialism took its ultimate...
Louvre Curator Germain Bazin adds his own comment on Satan in the 20th century: "Never before has Satan had such powerful means at his disposal: he now has his death factories, laboratories of suffering in which human nature can be tortured, disfigured and degraded . . . Dispossessed of nature, his former kingdom, Lucifer now seems to have installed himself at the very center of human intelligence, which has been far too ready to put itself on a level with God, playing with the forces it has mastered without having the humility to admit that the total chain of cause and effect must...