Word: micheles
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...S.B.H. he makes two important discoveries: (1) the autobiography of a young tough scrawled on the bottom of a set of desk drawers accusing Hermelin of seducing the tough's mother and sister, and (2) the information that his brother Michel not only writes critical vignettes about love but also commands the wholly inexplicable devotion and admiration of almost every young person in Paris. His disciples have never seen "Porteur", as they call him, or read his vignettes, but they perpetually invoke his name with unfathomable reverence. The plot, which is obviously enormously complicated, forms about Martin's movements between...
Determined to smash Salan's army, De Gaulle earlier last week flew in 5,000 additional troops to S.A.O.-dominated Oran, named Air Force General Michel Fourquet to succeed Ailleret as commander in chief. Hard-hitting Gaullist Fourquet set out to restore order before restive Moslem mobs got out of control in Oran and Algiers...
Young Mauriac is perhaps the most appealing and most readily understandable (if not the most profound) of the French group variously called the Anti-Novelists, the New Realists or merely the New Novelists. These tags are not very illuminating, and none could be satisfactory, because the writings of Mauriac, Michel Butor, Claude Simon, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Nathalie Sarraute do not much resemble one another; the authors are a movement only in that each rejects the conventional psychological novel...
...defense of his role in the April putsch, Jouhaud tried to implicate De Gaulle's own supporters. Six days before the uprising, he said, a member of the staff of recently resigned Premier Michel Debré told him: "Debré thinks exactly as you think and as I think, but he dare not say so." Jouhaud astonishingly described the S.A.O.. not as a close-knit terror group, but as a vast, popular movement with unspecified "social aims." comprising all the Europeans of Algeria and "many more Moslems than one thinks." He conceded there had been excesses, particularly...
Stone and Mr. Michel Singher, the musical director, keep everything going at a good clip, so that a very long show doesn't drag. Mr. Lewis H. Smith was responsible for the costumes, and he, too, must be praised: they are very colorful and dashing...