Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dead Ends. Bull-necked little Alphonse Halimi is the latest of the ring toughs that France breeds in its brawling hinterland on the far side of the Mediterranean. Even Parisian roughnecks from la zone (outer slums) are no match for scrappers who slug their way out of the free-for-alls of such dead ends as Algiers' Bab-El-Oued, a kind of Disunited Nations where Spaniards, Italians, Maltese and French mix it up with Moslem natives. Former Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, killed in a plane crash in 1949, was born in the Foreign Legion town of Sidi...
...stench of decay was recognizable in Parisian cinemas where newsreel audiences booed and jeered an endless procession of politicos marching vainly into the Palais Bourbon to argue and temporize. Railway workers, bus drivers, mailmen, stagehands, customs inspectors, garbage collectors, undertakers and thousands of other French workers walked out in a paralyzing general strike, leaving Paris streets empty of buses and littered with trash. Unless the government can persuade the Bank of France to lend it 250 billion francs, it will not be able even to meet its next civil-service payroll...
...Camus had rocketed into the Parisian literary firmament and the existential orbit of Jean-Paul Sartre. During the German occupation Camus fired the morale of the underground with eloquent pieces in his clandestine Combat. After the war he personified, with Sartre, the "engaged" writer, an active intellectual always ready to slide down the bell rope of the ivory tower and answer the fire alarms of left-wing social and economic causes. The two friends split irrevocably in 1952 over Communist ideology, with Camus holding that ends never justify means ("For a faraway city of which I am not sure...
...presumably forbidden to him," said Cordier. The paintings indicated little more than a novice's groping attempts at abstract art, but they showed a high degree of artistic consciousness. They also gave proof that no matter how tightly sealed off Russian painters may be, there is, as one Parisian artgoer put it, "only one cosmos...
Personality: has scholar's bespectacled face, broad-shouldered body of an athlete. Excels at tennis, swimming and skiing, plays 15-handicap golf ("Maybe I'm good enough to play with President Eisenhower") and first-rate bridge. Much sought after by Parisian hostesses. Arrives late to work, leaves the office every night by 9 to dine with the family in his elegant Avenue Foch apartment. (Madame Gaillard, widow of one of France's wealthiest financiers, has two children by her previous marriage, a son by this one.) His chief handicaps: a malicious wit-"Nothing outside, nothing inside...