Word: henry
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GLORY (154 pp.)-Pierre-Henri Simon-Harper...
This is a novel only because French Author Pierre-Henri Simon chooses to call it one. Actually, it is an antiwar tract and one of the most eloquent in recent years. It is the author's bitter J'accuse, telling all Frenchmen and the world that France, first in Indo-China and now in Algeria, has given its soldiers ignoble roles in shameful wars. Says the hero's friend: "You can't say that war's our industry, for it nearly always costs us more than...
...suicide note, signs Philip's name to it and in the note leaves Philip's entire estate to the mistress. Tom then seduces the mistress, who insists that he live with her-in Philip's apartment, on Philip's money. The Eastmancolor photography by Henri Decaë, a superb young craftsman who rode the New Wave (The Four Hundred Blows, The Cousins) to success, bathes all this in an innocent holiday light that makes the crime seem the more hideous by contrast, like a big hairy spider crawling slowly across a travel poster...
...Market began, encouraging Britain to join. Monnet praised Macmillan's decision as "an act of political courage.''optimistically expressed the hppe that Britain might be in by the end of the year (most observers expect the negotiations will take nearly a year). Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, 62, who presided over the drafting of the Treaty of Rome that put the Common Market in business, was equally delighted. He volunteered to preside over the delicate negotiations...
...Truth (Hans Films; Kingsley-lnternational) is a half-serious attempt to make a wholly serious film starring Brigitte Bardot. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot succeeds for the most part in keeping his drama sober, although now and then he throws in a few peepshots for the skin trade. But his effort to be earnest has unstrung the tautness with which he filmed Diabolique and Wages of Fear. For its last half hour, Truth is as limp as old lettuce...