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Former Premier Michel Debre is such a listless political personality that a current joke says he was once seen riding in an empty limousine. He has a fussy manner and a flat, whining voice that somehow rub politicians and many other Frenchmen the wrong way, obscuring his considerable administrative talents. In Charles de Gaulle's electoral landslide last November, Debre-the dedicated Gaullist. major architect of the Fifth Republic's constitution, and the man who served a longer uninterrupted period as Premier (1,193 days) than any other in French parliamentary history-was ignominiously defeated...
THROUGH THE HOOP (351 pp.)-Michel Del Castillo-Knopf...
Spanish-born Michel Del Castillo, 30, spent a harrowing childhood in European concentration camps, but was able to recall his experiences calmly and compassionately in a widely praised first novel, Child of Our Time. In his third novel, Del Castillo is more belligerent and less interesting. He now seems bent on taking revenge on all the adults who blighted his childhood in Franco's Spain...
...Belgian official in the Congo, Michel Struelens years ago became friendly with Katanga's Moise Tshombe. In October of 1960, he came to the U.S. as chief of the Katanga Information Service...
Unexperienced Sounds. Michel de Ghelderode often took his inspiration from the canvases of Flemish painters. His Magpie on the Gallows, for example, takes its name and theme from Pieter Brueghel's painting, in which sturdy peasants dance defiantly in the shadow of the gallows. In a series of radio interviews recorded in Ostend twelve years ago, known to fans as "The Ostend Interviews," Ghelderode offered probably the only deep glimpse into his habits and personality that he permitted during his lifetime...