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...that the U.S. Government and the vast majority of the people are trying to do something about it.'' He noted that Negroes "hold important posts in government; there are Negro ambassadors around the world, Negro judges, mayors, representatives in the U.N. We are making progress. But monsieur, we will continue to have problems...
...girl dressed in their parents' clothes, take a mock-adult trip to Paris. The author's gentle wit consists in creating a mildly inappropriate setting for the appropriate French phrase. The little girl falls into a fountain under a spouting marble fish. Caption, "Il pleut, Monsieur (eel pluh muh-seyuh)," means "It is raining, sir." Irene Haas's line drawings superbly evoke a tourist's Paris. A book for the household that thought it had everything when it bought Winnie Ille...
...drama. From the indoor stages of Scandinavia to the open-air théâtres antiques of Roman Provence, there is a heady international mosaic. Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes, for example, will be done in Lallan Scots accents at Edinburgh (hoot, monsieur...
...stings in much that is vulgar, powder burns on a lot that is neurotic or just human. They go at each other as a way of going at many things else: they are mamma and papa, or mother and son, or lover and mistress, or brother and sister, or monsieur and madame; they coil round each other constantly like flowers, teenagers or snakes...
...uproar by the report of a case of yaws, which proved to be a physician's whimsical entry for la grippe. In many areas, coroners had to invoke police aid to force doctors to make out death certificates-and quite a few were signed "Paul Bacon." Who was Monsieur Bacon? None other than France's Minister of Labor, whose department administers the program...