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...second phase of Premier Guy Mollet's policy for pacifying Algeria-the "parallel" program of political and economic reform. As their pilot project, which they christened Operation Esperance (Operation Hope), authorities expropriated from a French landholding company a 600-acre farm near the Kabylia town of Saint Lucien and announced that 16 Moslem fellahin would be given ownership of the land they had worked as sharecroppers. The French also proclaimed free local elections in the Kabylia...
...parallel program of their own. They "atomized" their bands and resorted to hit-and-run terrorism-assassination, small-scale ambushes, and intimidation, mostly carried out at night and out of reach of French forces. Last week, the night before the land distribution was to take place at Saint Lucien, a small group of rebels sneaked into town...
France's Jacques Villon, vintage 1875, is a case in point. On view at Manhattan's Lucien Goldschmidt bookstore last week was Villon's latest and perhaps greatest claim to a permanent bin in the wine cellar of art history. His new triumph: a $350-a-copy edition of Virgil's Eclogues, illustrated with 25 superb color lithographs...
...toms (which seem to be saying Mau Mau), the least alert reader can guess that the spirits imported by evil Mr. Lindelbaum are more vodka and voodoo than honest Scotch. South African-born Novelist van der Post (Venture to the Interior) has taken his theme from French Philosopher-Sociologist Lucien Levy-Bruhl: "Le reve est le vrai dieu des Primitifs [The dream is the real god of primitive peoples]." The Russians know that the far-flung Amangtak-wena tribe is expecting its chief witch doctor to have a "dream," i.e., to receive from the spirit world an oracular directive...
...Beyle-Stendhal, that kind of playacting was how men of character faced the facts of life. It is a key to his,thought. He hated hypocrisy, and so did his principal literary heroes, Julien Sorel. the ambitious provincial, Lucien Leuwen, the morose bourgeois, Fabrizio del Dongo, the romantic idealist. But to all of them and to all the young men who set out to conquer the world, Stendhal's message was plain: be insincere. It is one of the piquant paradoxes of the diary that Beyle offers the advice in all sincerity...