Word: rard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other end of the scale is Jean Bérard, a 26-year-old railway worker. Bérard wanted to get married at 21, after doing his 18-month military service, but he couldn't find a room. He and his fiancée postponed their wedding again and again, eventually decided to go through with it, lived with his or her family for two years. Finally, in desperation, they moved into roomier quarters with an uncle on a chicken farm in the Landes, the sparsely populated coastal stretch between Bordeaux and Biarritz...
Today Bérard lives alone in a little furnished room in Paris all week, takes the train south to see his wife every weekend (riding free with a special railway employee pass). After a four-year search, he still cannot find a room with a kitchenette in Paris. Living in a hotel with his wife and eating their meals in restaurants would be too expensive...
...Communist. But he has joined the Red-led Confédération Générate du Travail, and he is swallowing Communist propaganda. The Communists predicted German rearmament, defeat in Indo-China, economic misery. "It's the only party that tells the truth," Bérard argues. Deep down, Jean is less a militant pro-Communist than a bitter man protesting. More than anything he would like to be somebody else. "If my parents had money, I would have been a student, and I think I would have been a good one," he says...
...this-is-how-it-really-was quality, Heartbreak is far more than a newsreel. It threads its story on the trial-by-fire of young Lieut. Gérard Garcet, a replacement starch-fresh from St. Cyr. At first Career Officer Garcet learns a basic lesson-war is mostly waiting...
Richard or Johann? For three-quarters of the evening, it was impossible to tell that the words were in English (in a translation by John Gutman), but it hardly mattered, because most of the conversation that came through was a bore. Rolf Gérard's scenery, on the other hand, was both attractive and understandable: the vast gold and white ballroom in the second act had beautifully costumed couples waltzing in the background, and the third act's red-plush hotel lobby was an atmospheric masterpiece...