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...department. Had this been done before, the widely detested departmental requirements in History might have fallen years ago as the Bastille did centuries before; but the department's isolation in an obscure corner of the Yard has made reform as unlikely as spontaneous and surprise attack by Parisian mobs on Versailles...
...transcendental yearnings. There have been greater abstract artists than Kupka, but none so unmistakably Slavic. Later, when Kupka's eminence as a pioneer of abstract art was recognized-his first completely abstract pictures were done around 1910-11-the French tried to claim him as a true Parisian in whom the Central European heritage was aesthetically unimportant...
...Story of O is, in a word, trash, as almost any Parisian who has seen it will quickly say. "It's zero, zero, as in 0," said one man as he walked out of the theater. "It's a giggle," said another. It is, however, the kind of giggle the French apparently have been waiting for. Half of Paris seems to be queuing up to see it -and the other half is talking about it. After the puritanical regimes of Charles de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou, sex has at last returned to Paris...
...indications, fewer than 7 million Americans will go overseas this year, down about 7% from 1974, and about 20% below halcyon 1973. Latest figures show that travel to Europe, normally the destination of three out of seven Americans going overseas, is off 10%. Notes Victor Minerbo, a familiar Parisian presence who for years has wheedled business for the restaurant in the Eiffel Tower: "Look around and see how many Americans you can spot! None...
Black Thursday is July 16, 1942, the day most Parisian Jews were deported to the extermination camp at Auschwitz. Christian Rich plays Paul, an aristocratic young gentile student who hopes to use his advance warning of the deportation to save as many Jews as possible. On the morning of the deportation, he visits the Jewish quarters on the right bank to alert Jews to the enormity of their peril, to persuade them to hide and to offer them shelter on the left bank. Incredulity, confusion, fear and family solidarity conspire to prevent Jews from following Paul's advice: as French...