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...Crime and Punishment. Like Raskolnikov, the hero (Martin La Salle) is a penniless student with Nietzschean notions about crime: "Some men are stronger and more talented than others and have the right to break the law. Their crimes revitalize society." Such thoughts impelled Raskolnikov to murder; they inspire Michel to pick pockets. The crimes differ in seriousness, but not in spiritual effect. In both cases, the crime compels the hero to experience successively sin, guilt, despair, contrition, atonement, love...
...story ends, Michel reaches through the bars that define his freedom and wonderingly touches the young woman he now knows he loves. "What a strange and terrible way I had to travel," he says in a trembling voice, "to find...
Most prominent on the Gaullist side are Premier Georges Pompidou, the National Assembly's tennis-playing President Jacques Chaban-Delmas and ex-Premier Michel Debré. Recently elected as a Deputy from Reunion Island, Debré cannily refused the confining job of faction leader of the Gaullists in order to establish him self as Mr. Fixit for problems throughout the country. Under the spur of Debré's competition, Pompidou is now functioning more like a politician and less like a banker turned statesman. In nationwide broadcasts, he has proved to be a relaxed, avuncular performer...
...which takes its name from Father John van Bolland, Rosweyde's successor) is limited to six priest-scholars, who are always Jesuits and almost always Belgians. The Bollandists. who have no parish duties and seldom give public lectures, live in one wing of Brussels' College de St. Michel, do most of their work in their own five-tiered, 320,000-volume library. The society's leader is Father Maurice Coens, 70, a soft-spoken expert on medieval German saints and a Bollandist for 35 years. Prospective next member is Michel van Esbroeck, 28, a specialist in Near...
...three of his predecessors: Paul Reynaud, Pierre Mendés-France and Michel Debré. Straining Minds. Louis-le-grand is today a classic building in the Rue Saint Jacques, its quiet broken by the whining Vespas of its 2,000 boys and the almost audible straining of their minds. Beset with bourrage (cramming), they wearily carve on their desks such mottoes as "Work is a sacred thing; better not touch it," and with good reason. Most French lycées span seven years, the goal being two baccalaureat exams for university entrance at the level of U.S. college sophomores...