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...soul" that set human beings apart from animals. To them, the essence of man was his God-given spirit, immaterial, impalpable, otherworldly, something quite outside the natural world. But with the decline of religion and the rise of materialism, 17th and 18th century philosophers like Thomas Hobbes and Julien de La Mettrie increasingly viewed the soul as an aspect of the body, man as an animal, both men and animals as machines...
...list of those arrested reads like a Who's Who of the Canadian Left. In includes Michel Chartrand, a Quebec leader of the Confederation of National Trade Unions; Pauline Julien, a supporter of the Parti Quebecois and a nationally-famous singer who once refused to perform for Queen Elizabeth; Dr. Henri Bellemarre, director of a Montreal health clinic and a city council candidate of the Front d'Action Politique; to name only a few. Some of the hardest-hit youth groups have been the Vietnamese Patriots, an organization of students from South Vietnam who are sympathetic to the NLF; Cartier...
...human corruption perhaps more exhaustively than any other contemporary writer. When he died last week at 84, France mourned the loss not only of one of its most illustrious men of letters but also of a voice of moral assurance in an era of bitter doubt. "Mauriac," said Novelist Julien Green in a eulogy, was the latest in a line of Christian writers who have "put a great literary style quite naturally at the service of a great faith...
...unsentimental, robust honesty. Tanner's first one-man show, in Cincinnati, failed to sell a single picture to the public. He sailed in 1891 for Paris, where he must have seemed rather prim to the rowdy French art students who studied with him at the Academie Julien. Thanks to his Methodist upbringing, Tanner refused to touch wine at first. However, he fitted in well enough with American expatriate artists and connoisseurs. He became fast friends with Department Store Heir Rodman Wanamaker and Patent Medicine Heir Atherton Curtis, both of whom collected his work. In 1899, he married a pretty...
...paves ont disparus sous un goudron gauliste, le graffiti a ete lave des murs de la Sorbonne, mais dans le recueil de Julien Besancon la musique sauvage et ephemere de mai '68 nous revient, intermittente, saccadee, a travers les griffonages des etudiants parisiens...