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...military commanders. Gursel today is a spry 67, has almost fully recovered from a partial paralysis he suffered 17 months ago; he has also broken the chain-smoking habit and is proud of it. "During those first days," he recalls, "I felt that someone had me by the throat and voices were whispering in my ear 'Smoke, smoke...
...theory that the S.A.O. would spare Moslems accompanied by children. European dockers had been tipped off beforehand and had kept out of sight. But enraged Moslems scrambling from the scene grabbed the first Frenchman they saw driving by, a hapless Sahara oil worker on leave, and cut his throat...
...subjects agree with Holtzman: this blot reminds them of an enraged executive listening to two telephones. The response "Mud smeared on a church window" is moderately but definitely neurotic, says Holtzman, because it "shows strong hostility toward conventional authority." More nearly psychotic, because it suggests primitive appetites, is: "A throat with many throats inside...
...University of Virginia, said he. the queries had been "a little soft." but the cadets. having boned up on The Hamlet and Light in August for days past, were "up" for the meeting. Is a writer ever satisfied? asked one. If he is, replied Faulkner, he should "cut his throat and quit." Which of his books was his favorite? The Sound and the Fury, because, like a crippled child, it caused him the most grief. Unaccountably. Faulkner drew the greatest applause when, to a question on nationalism, he replied: "If the spirit of nationalism gets into literature, it stops being...
Luckily Alive. Testimony against Jouhaud came from five prosecution witnesses, all lucky to be alive. Two spoke in husky voices because of face and throat wounds from recent S.A.O. attacks; a third had barely lived through five assassination attempts in a single year-including a grenade thrown into his hospital room while he was recovering from an earlier wounding. General Jean Arthus, chief of the gendarmerie in Oran, said that eleven of his own men had been killed by the S.A.O., and 50 wounded. "For us," he said grimly, "the man responsible was Jouhaud...