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...reader spends a whole day some time in a large Parisian bookstore like P.U.F. on the Blvd. St. Michel, he will find shelfloads of books on disciplines that do not exist in America. He will even find translations into French of books written in English of which he has never heard...

Author: By Alexander Korns, | Title: In Education: Garbage, Trash, Junk | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

...HAVE been inundated by biographies and memoirs; Hemingway's Moveable Feast. the interminable studies of Joyce's Paris years, the histories of manic Surealists like Breton or Michel Leiris. If the Diaries belong to this tradition, still their achievement is in something more: the unearthing of a sensibility diminished by the wracking crises of the years between 1939 and 1944, and yet able to go on. Anais Nin's shared preoccupations with psychoanalysis pervade the entries in this volume; Otto Rank appears in the beginning pages as the mysterious influence he was in Nin's life, but by this time...

Author: By James R. Atlas, | Title: Nostalgia The Diary of Anais Nin Volume III 1939-1944; Harcourt, Brace and World; $7.50 | 12/4/1969 | See Source »

...worker strike that paralyzed France in May 1968 gave the world its first good look at the New Left, Gallic branch. Last week, for the first time, France voted a genuine New Leftist into office. In the unlikely setting of Les Yvelines, a largely middle-class district outside Paris, Michel Rocard, one of the few party leaders in France to side openly with the May revolutionaries, won election to the National Assembly. Rocard, 39, is the boyish-looking secretary of the tiny Unified Socialist Party (P.S.U.), whose slogan is "worker power, student power, peasant power." The man he defeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Eternal Non | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...hotel (no, not Marienbad) in the middle of a forest, Professor Henri Garcin is seduced by another woman (Catherine Sellers) as his young wife (Nicole Hiss) looks vacantly into the camera and does a lot of wondering about illusion and reality. She is consoled by a writer (Michel Lonsdale) who talks a lot about being Jewish (no, not Philip Roth). Nothing happens, but that, of course, is the order of things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: Modest Fame | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

That domain, which is also the habitat of her lover Charles (Michel Piccoli), begins to bore Lucile, and so she starts spending her afternoons with handsome, earnest young Antoine (Roger Van Hool). Before long, he insists that she choose between them. "Pourquoi?" pouts Lucile, and the limits of her horizons are drawn a bit more clearly. She knows that Charles will have her back any time she likes, so she moves in with Antoine. Antoine obliges her to take a job; soon, too, she is pregnant. She decides she does not like the realities of this world either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pourquoi? | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

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