Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gauls, said Pundit Caesar, "the bravest are the Belgians." Reasons, as Caesar saw them: 1) the Belgians were far off the path of Roman traders and thus far from the enervating fripperies of civilization, and 2) they lived across the Rhine from the Germans, with whom they were fighting all the time...
...like your business, M. Leclerc, but every time I sell you 1,000,000 francs worth of goods, I lose 30 million in canceled orders elsewhere." When things looked black, Leclerc's plight came to official attention in Paris. Economic Minister Antoine Pinay and other high officials saw in his crusade a way to raise French living standards without causing an inflationary wage increase, which they knew would only be soaked up in higher prices. The De Gaulle government used its emergency powers to pass a law making it a six-month jail offense for a wholesaler to discriminate...
...Capone (Burrows-Ackerman; Allied Artists) is amusing proof of the old saw that each generation rewrites history in its own image. In the lurid cinemythology of the '30s, Capone was glorified by Paul Muni (Scarface), Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) and James Cagney (Public Enemy) as a snap-brim Satan. In the sober retrospect of the '503, he is reduced by Rod Steiger to a mere whitecollar, clean-desk psychopath-a sort of organization maniac...
...this week; any book would be easier going. The Red and the Black deals exam period diversion a death blow. Claude Autant-Lara has allowed himself to be carried away with the pathetic figure of a poor downtrodden peasant of the French Empire. He fails to recall that Stendahl saw Julien Sorel's answer to constricting French society as understandable, but not laudable. Sorel is no hero of the poor, he is simply the unfortunate...
...captain Albie Gordon, however, who pulled the most pronounced reversal of form. After a rough winter which saw him grow progressively worse as the season wore on, Gordon snapped his slump with a blazing stretch run that defeated Ron Salter and Dave Gray of Army...