Word: mediterraneans
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...grim contrast to its publicity brochures, Beirut's 26-floor Holiday Inn last week was more a nightmare than a dream come true. The only visitors lingering in the shell-pocked, fire-scorched tower beside the Mediterranean were alternating bands of Christian militiamen trying to hold their hotel stronghold and Moslem fighters intent on blasting them out with rockets and tanks. The Christian Phalangists lost the hotel, won it back briefly, then lost it for good as Moslem riflemen stormed into the shattered lobby, fought their way up from floor to floor and savagely tossed the body...
...Dufy's street scenes, the rosy theatrical vigor of Van Dongen's scene of a couple out side a brothel. The Hussar (Liverpool Night House), 1906, the slapdash but infectious ebullience of Vlaminck's still lifes. The best sight of all, though, is Matisse inventing the Mediterranean; it is amazing to find how deeply one's images of that coast have been marked by Matisse's agaves and olives, his lion-colored headlands and glimpses of pink water and red masts beyond a balcony...
DURING THE BOOM decades since World War II, millions of temporary workers have streamed into the industrial centers of western Europe to provide them with unskilled labor. The immigrants come from all the underdeveloped countries of the Mediterranean, hoping to earn enough in a few years up north to build a house or open a small business in their villages--or often enough, simply to survive where unemployment ranges from 20 to 50 per cent. Known in West Germany as gastarbeiter (guestworkers), and in France as hommes deracines (rootless men), these workers are concentrated in the worst paid, most arduous...
...said other democratization efforts in Mediterranean countries--Greece, Portugal, and Spain--would probably fail...
Camus's assumption that "East and West live together" in North Africa is extremely dubious, but his concept of "a Mediterranean culture" is still widely accepted by many Algerians. It is difficult to say whether the survival of this attitude is due to the survival of a colonial mentality or to incipient "embourgeoisiement" which patterns itself after its Western and particularly French counterpart. However, it is certain that the attitude prevails. It manifests itself in countless "Frenchisms"--styles of talking, gestures, clothing and writing. France still haunts Algeria, and chances are she will continue...