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...Gabrielle was greedy and sent some of her girls into service overseas in Casablanca, Dakar and Damascus, thus qualifying as a white-slave trafficker. Last week plump, double-chinned Gabrielle Gaucher was fined $3,600 and deprived of civil rights for ten years. Her husband Marcel, a gay boulevardier who had lived a happy, dronelike existence on his wife's earnings, could not stand the publicity, and killed himself...
...visual arts at M.I.T., he is used to conducting interprofessional seminars in such elusive studies as "structure" and "continuity," and to thinking out his own esthetic positions in precise if thickly accented terms. "It is not important to me to echo Auschwitz," he says, "or Hiroshima, or the Russian slave camps. We can't compete with such brutality, and we shouldn't just mirror it. What we can find are the seeds of something clean and pure. My generation throws away all hope that one can go beyond the everyday. Yet when one listens to Bach, one hears...
...when France abolished slavery, the oldest of its colonies found itself in desperate need of cheap labor. Since the next best thing to a black slave was a white convict, the Islands of Salvation became a part of the most notorious penal colony in the world. Over the next century, 70,000 Frenchmen were to learn what it meant to be sentenced to the "dry guillotine," but not more than 2,000 lived long enough to get back to France...
...tyrrany of altruism. "If any civilization is to survive," said she last week, "it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject." And why? Because this Christian virtue leads to self-immolation, tolerance of the "incompetent" common man, the welfare state, and ultimately to the slave labor camp. By hindering ego, altruism destroys human "reason." Nurtured by a small Manhattan cult, Author Rand's unaltruistic philosophy of "objectivism" is objectified by the gold dollar sign that she often wears as a brooch ("The cross is the symbol of torture; I prefer the dollar sign, the symbol...
...Yugoslavia. Replied Stepinac bluntly: "I am completely indifferent concerning any thoughts of my liberation. I know why I suffer. It is for the rights of the Catholic Church. I am ready to die each day for the church. The Catholic Church cannot be, nor will it ever be, the slave of any regime...