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...slightest misstep: a melody will slip into passages that suggest fado or flamenco or Orthodox church music, then emerge again for a major-key resolution. Ferré has written some lovely love songs, but most of his ideas are tough, and he does not mince words-as in Monsieur Tout-Blanc, his pre-Deputy attack on the Pope...
Defferre is the mysterious "Monsieur X" whose virtues as a candidate have recently been touted by the influential left-wing weekly L'Express. The description fitted Defferre so perfectly that few Frenchmen had any doubt whom L'Express had in mind. As the Monsieur X campaign boomed on, Gaullists began to squirm, and Defferre's original resistance to the presidential fever weakened...
Charles de Gaulle was cast as Monsieur Scrooge last week in two pre-Christmas carols vitally involving the future of the Western alliance. One concerned NATO (see following story), the other the Common Market, which, according to some alarmed observers, was on the verge of breaking...
...Monsieur Incognito, Chez Sabine, La Bande en Noir, Le Chant d' Amour...
...Renovator." Having brought a crowd to cheer, the dictator who masquerades as Haiti's constitutionally elected President, showed himself in public again and again last week, telling his Negro people that Haiti's problems are economic, not political, and that he has no quarrel with "Monsieur Kennedy, who believes that our continent should be a community of free and independent states." Yet everywhere he drove, Duvalier kept his own trusty carbine at the ready...