Word: parisians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold rainy day last week, curious Parisians packed a dingy courtroom in the Palais de Justice to hear a red-robed judge pronounce sentence on Mathilde Carre. She was a pert, petite woman with bangs -the very picture of a Parisian gamine. The French thought they understood Mathilde, though they could not forgive...
...hired by a rich Parisian marketcer to do some gold smuggling, which, of course, is nothing at all to a former leader of the desert patrol, etc. Unfortunately, the young man's charm, or something, is so tremendous that in no time at all he has the wife, the secretary, the daughter, and the maid all madly in love with him. But with the daughter it's real, and she gives up her bourgeois notions about truth. The final curtain finds her fixing breakfast for her "emperor of China...
...refused to go into full-scale production until the government increases its program budget ($11,000 for all of 1948). The government refuses to telecast more programs until more people have sets. Result: fewer than 5,000 sets in all France. Programs include first-run movies, interviews, operas and Parisian nightclub shows (uncensored). Throughout the rest of Western Europe, television is still in its infancy. The Netherlands has an experimental transmitter at Eindhoven; Germany plans one in the British zone at Hamburg...
...young (38), unknown French professor of philosophy in 1943 when he published Being and Nothingness, a 700-page look at modern man's predicament. So well did he echo the prevailing French despair that he became a Parisian hero, quit his teaching job and unleashed a flood of controversial writing that included novels, short stories, plays, essays and off-the-cuff journalism. Almost all of it has been a clinical, repetitious elaboration of his grim teaching: wretched man comes into this rotten world through no fault of his own. The concept of God, argues Sartre, is an irrational delusion...
Miss Crocker and Miss Thacher got a Parisian hotel eye-view of Christmas...