Word: parise
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; Countries like France and Japan don't perceive themselves as nations of bigots. Neither condones violence or the persecution of minorities. But both see themselves as possessing a certain superiority -- cultural in France, ethnic in Japan -- and they are uncomfortable with the presence of aliens. Such largely unspoken social attitudes...
The profanations at Carpentras were followed by a wave of copycat crimes last week. Graves were vandalized or painted with swastikas in at least six other Jewish cemeteries around the country. In the Brittany city of Quimper, red Stars of David were spray painted on 17 stores. In Royan, a...
TRAVEL: Oases on the busy boulevards of Paris
After the Germans smashed the Second Empire in 1870, a number of refugees from occupied Alsace fled to Paris. Among them was Leonard Lipp, who opened across the boulevard from the Flore a little brasserie ornamented with luxurious blue and green tropical birds on its tiled walls. Lipp's has...
Aging and nostalgic visitors who find the cafe scene not what it used to be also find good reasons for that. One is that Paris cafes flourished because residential hotel rooms were often dark and cold; prosperity has changed that. Another is that, with prices high, many people prefer the...