Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month. Psychology could cause even more havoc than economics. Frenchmen traditionally mistrust their own currency, and they have been spending francs rather than holding them, thus aggravating inflation. As a hedge against devaluation, they are converting francs not only into gold but also into "money substitutes" such as real estate, furs and fine wines. A recent poll showed that 45% of all Frenchmen expect a franc devaluation sometime this year...
...almost 6,000 depositors with more than $7,000,000 in accounts. About two-thirds of its clients are black, but the bank also gets business from some white-owned firms, including the Gillette Co. and New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. President Donald Sneed Jr., 35, a former real estate broker, reported a profit of $47,520 for the first six months of the bank's operations...
...Siegmaringen. The time is late in the war. France has already been liberated by the Allies. At Siegmaringen, French collaborators (including Celine) are huddled together, fearful of R.A.F. bombs, of their German masters and, most of all, of one another. In this bedlam, swarming with bizarre characters, are real personages from history like Pierre Laval and Marshal Petain, as well as the Communist poet Louis Aragon and Otto Abetz, Hitlers ex-Gauleiter in Paris. "A pack of the most rapacious wolves in Europe" Céline calls them, all betrayers of someone outside, all frenetically performing a dance of hate...
...French novels, on the other hand, have abjured any attempt to examine man on a Proustian or Balzac -ian scale in favor of esthetic gimcrackery, narrow psychological study and freakish private experiment. As a literary construction, Castle to Castle is equivocal-a hateful papier-mache funfair castle inhabited by real monsters...
...resident light show company, the Road. There was a time when the light show was a mere irrelevance, to be glanced at when one's attention wandered from the group on stage. The art form is much more highly developed today and the light shows these days are real accompaniment to the music on stage. The Road's members have been together for a year and they approach their lighting task as if they were a group playing along with the group on stage, trying to fit their light show to the music. One member of the group elegantly described...