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...Lithuanian novelist who spent the war in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, it tells of a decent German aristocrat who turns into a Nazi killer with chilling ease. Messkirch, narrating the story of his own fall, is a well-to-do landowner in rural Germany. He takes pride in being a skeptic, a cut above the fanatical urban upstarts who are running the country. But in countless small ways, he betrays the weaknesses of character -the obtuseness, the occasional coarseness, the racism-that the Nazis know so well how to exploit...
Voltaire and the Calas Case, by Edna Nixon. Voltaire's memory is well served in this account of how the great skeptic roused Europe against France's execution of an innocent Huguenot...
...girl returning from a cast party at 3 or 4 a.m. may very well not be in a condition to check books," claimed one skeptic. However, a representative from one of the co-op dorms said that a similar system of checking was used in Jordan Hall and was found to work out all right...
Apparently, then, the novel more than an unusually (if for the most part extremely skeptic's view of the love and of Paris. But this description doesn't quite fit; disturbing notes cropping up. The autobiography out to be a fraud, the literary of an S.B.H. employee, but it is "applied literature", it is not fabrication, and it is besides a and powerful piece of writing. gross Lormier at one point forces Hermelin to apologize to his knees. Porteur commits when photographers release his through the press...
Even the most confirmed skeptic about French politics cannot doubt the imminence of a cease-fire agreement in Algeria. The important question has become whether such an agreement will solve France's problems. During the period of the Fifth Republic's formation, and during the first years of de Gaulle's power, it was assumed that it would: the end of the war would mean good riddance to a troublesome, wearying and expensive colonial adventure, and a chance for a new France to find her place in the New Europe. What else...