Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nicer in the house dining halls than in the Union. With wider tables, you don't have to shake hands with just anybody who drags his sleeve in you mashed potatoes. People soon learn the proper, vaguely distant expression, the limp handshake, the alert, interested way of seeming to listen to someone at the next table--all the marks of the development of really good manners...
...share--our music, our talks--has nothing to do with the war." This may be so, but he would not say it, and the girl would not reply, "But you are a German." Even though Maria Schell, as the daughter, is a lovely woman, it is hard to listen to the words she has been given. The "minor key" in which the movie is set seems more like a series of uneasy moments where the characters are made to make their own situations explicit...
...collaborators or members of the fascist Croix de Feu. Most were small grocers, bakers, mechanics, shopkeepers; and each of them obeyed Little Pierre. Poujade leased a small hotel near the Louvre to house them, held a three-day conference to teach them parliamentary procedure. "See, my boys, now you listen to Little Pierre," he told them. from the gallery...
...rented (no central heat, no bath, meals in the kitchen), the town elders glance up from their cards and shrug: "It's only Pierrot." But his organization men, waiting in the backroom, are excited and cordial, report happily of hundreds of new dues-paying members since election, listen while Poujade regales them with a bit of gossip from the big city and a lot of Poujade propaganda...
Poujade now aspires to create a new "authentic French fraternity" which ranges far beyond shopkeepers. He has been assiduously wooing labor, dines union leaders 40 and 50 at a time. "When the workers listen to me, they say: 'Poujade is not so bad; he is not against us at all. He is against our enemies, the big trusts.' " The big trusts themselves are interested. Textile Tycoon Marcel Boussac, biggest of French businessmen, owner of race horses and the fashion house of Dior, sent an emissary to sound out this new political phenomenon. "He tried to pull the worms...