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Sorbonne Philosophy Professor Jean Guitton rushed to the front page of Le Figaro to cry shame, because "the oral, properly understood, is a delicious moment." Guitton fondly recalled questions from his own orals ("Monsieur, what was the color of pigs in Homer's day?"), remembered his anti-French error of telling his examiners that brainy men complement each other ("No, Monsieur. When intelligences are united, they subtract from each other"). Warmly supporting Guitton in defense of the oral. Author Paul ( The Innocent Tenant) Guth wrote: "In a world more and more dedicated to the quantitative, the oral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oral Surgery | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...same room where Errol Flynn was married to one of his three wives eight years ago. a mayor of Monte Carlo was last week about to perform another, humbler, wedding. Suddenly a liveried bailiff burst in, crying: "Monsieur Boisson! You're not mayor any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONACO: Aux Armes, Citoyens! | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...building up the exquisitely precarious card house of a complex gag-Comedian Tati seems the funniest funnyman now at work in films. The trouble is that Tati is not content to be merely a comedian. He has developed all sorts of crypto-Chaplinesque rationalizations about the deeper significance of Monsieur Hulot-"modern man ... at the mercy of objects . . . enmeshed by circumstances." The film, as a result of these lucubrations, is at least half an hour too long, and in the length it fails to find a rhythmic respiration that might have shaped so many disparate episodes into a breathing whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...Bourbon Institute? Qu'est-ce que c'est? Est-ce un hopital? Non? Un musee? Non? Alors, monsieur, je regrette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: 86-Proof American | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...Bien, monsieur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: 86-Proof American | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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