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...achievement of liberty on the new continent owed as much to geography and British Blimpishness as to George Washington. His later attempts to translate American liberty into reality back home in France involved him in one glori ous absurdity after another. Before the French Revolution, he was a popular idol, and after it he might even have become head of state. Instead, his pride in his ideas and inability to compromise lodged him in prison, cost him his fortune in millions and, finally, made him a sort of walking effigy of liberty. To realists like Mirabeau, who tried to take...
...caramel voice which murmurs it in throbbing French in a newly released Columbia album belongs to a 29-year-old Parisian chanteuse named Juliette Greco. For U.S. listeners the album offers a fresh view of a singer whose literate, melancholy repertory and haunting voice have made her the musical idol of the existentialists and a reigning favorite along the music hall and nightclub circuit...
...roll business it helps to be daffy. In Charlotte, N.C. he deeply impressed the local Observer's observer: "Presley burst onto the stage, staggering and flailing like a moth caught in a beam of light." Flouncing down to Charleston, S.C., the twitchy bobby-soxers' twitchy idol made an even deeper impression upon the press. The local News & Courier sent one of its newshens, customarily safe in its education department, to try to talk to Presley and photograph him. As she aimed her camera at him. Presley impetuously leaned over and gave her a love bite on the hand...
Franklin D. Roosevelt is still very much an idol for millions of Latin Americans. Of course, young Roosevelt has to make a living, so I guess that is the reason he has not spoken out very strongly against the Trujillo regime...
...spot look at their new architecture and construction; 2) put on display West Berlin's answer to East Berlin's mile-long Stalinallee, done in approved Moscow style. West Berliners expect to win in a walk. Stalinallee, with its small windows, warped doors, faulty plumbing and fallen idol, is already being called "The Street of the Great Mistake...