Word: mauriacs
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...Seine, and colleagues discovered his wife and four children living in an abandoned factory, sleeping on old rags.) Others think the trouble is deeper seated, and will not be settled until judges are confined to judging, and kept out of jury rooms. Wrote Prizewinning Novelist Francois Mauriac last week: "There is no criminal case today in which the principal defendant is not French justice...
...would take Leon Blum's place - and he is a successor to Blum in many ways - is not a Marxist. The perspective would not be pro-Marxist; it would be New Deal." Old Virtues. Another recruit to the New Left is Catholic Novelist François Mauriac, chief editorial writer of the influential Figaro, who has professed him self disillusioned by his old party, the M.R.P. "Because certain leaders of the M.R.P. seem to have forgotten the ideals of their youth," he wrote, "thousands of Christian Democrats are ready to regroup themselves...
Servan-Schreiber, pointing with pride to "the exceptional nature of a meeting on the political plane between Pierre Mendés-France, liberal statesman; François Mauriac, inspiration of the Christian left, and André Malraux, the revolutionary guide who renounced nothing which united him with De Gaulle," concluded: "Here are the men from whom the rising generation can draw reasons for ... believing again in the virtues of political action...
...days, the heroes and heroines of religious novels were "good" people who practiced what the parson preached. Nowadays, as in the novels of Graham Greene and Mauriac, the religious hero is more likely to be a fallen fellow who depends for salvation solely on the mercy of God. In his first novel, U.S. Poet Dunstan Thompson has tried to avoid both extremes...
...pure and lofty motives." Gaullist Senator Edmond Michelet demanded that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault "call the attention of the Holy See to the regrettable consequences which our country's prestige might suffer throughout the world ... as a result of this assault on a world . . ." Novelist François Mauriac took two columns in Le Figaro to empty the vials of his wrath on the papal nuncio to France as one "who wields on French soil more power than that of any member of the government." Mauriac blamed the situation on the separation of church and state. A concordat with...