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Said his lawyer, Jacques Isorni: "He saw himself as an avenger against a capitalist society that exploited people. [While] his acts were serious, his.motives were loftier." Retorting that swindling is swindling. Judge Max Trouiller saw to it that Ermacora would not ride the subways for a while, much less drive his Ferrari. He sentenced Ermacora to seven years in prison...
Finally, Pompidou sought to find common cause with the U.S. on a loftier level. France's drive to develop economic wealth, he noted, "has no other purpose than that of serving man, of allowing him to develop his personality by freeing him from the restraints of poverty and the gnawing worries of tomorrow." The alliance, he suggested, can be renewed by common attacks on urban problems. That theme has already entered the calculations of American policymakers searching for enduring points of transatlantic interest...
Members of the French-educated elite, including civil servants and many intellectuals, criticize the U.S. from a somewhat loftier level. They accuse the Americans of practicing a kind of cultural defoliation in Viet Nam. "We consider your country too young, and there is not much we can learn from you, save for what we call modern development," says one intellectual. "We tend to equate you with machines for whom there is no deep thinking." Says another: "Americans have no culture, unless you call beer and big bosoms culture." At Saigon's Cercle Sportif and around upper-middle-class dining...
...positions provide Moscow with daily intelligence on Egyptian military movements and preparedness-which Russia disastrously miscalculated in 1967. Egyptian officers complain that their Russian advisers are aloof and overbearing, work them too hard, and do not teach enough mobile warfare. According to the official slogan, Egyptian-Soviet friendship is "loftier than the Aswan Dam and more solid than the Pyramids." In fact, the relationship is pragmatic rather than cordial. Even during construction at Aswan where 3,000 Soviet engineers lived and worked shoulder to shoulder with Egyptians, few friendships developed. In Cairo today, thousands of Russians live clannishly in their...
Shankar's display of musical hypnotism clearly dramatized the essential difference between Western and Indian music. Much of Western music is an ex pressive artistic message delivered-as if in a package-directly to the listener. Indian music attempts to induce a loftier, more profound emotional and spiritual state in the listener through a steady, stroboscopic kind of rhythmic and melodic bedazzlement. At the height of a raga, says Shankar, "it is utter joy, uninhibited, that an artist experiences. The raga, the musician, the listeners, all become one." That is something that India's Ravi Shankar...