Word: travailing
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...Leibnitzian particles in a transcendental ether. The color is excellent, though it is not clear why color is needed; the exterior shots are mostly of snowscapes marked with black exclamations of pine, and the interiors are in starkest black and white (Good v. Evil). To suggest, perhaps, the eternal travail of these opposites, the picture has been made as eternal as possible (102 minutes). When at last the moviegoer dares hope it will end, one of the characters looks him square in the eye and announces: "There's a grave...
...possibly even the emergence of a new spiritual species. In the distant future, he foresees a kind of blending of all the higher religions-"a terrestrial Communion of Saints who would be free from sin . . . because each soul . . . would be cooperating with God at the cost of sore spiritual travail...
...Faulkner novel is the event of the year. To the plain reader it is a tortuous chore which pays off only in random flashes of greatness, some of it so illuminating as to make the ill-lighted drudgery seem worthwhile. This week, after nine years of "anguish and travail," Faulkner unveils A Fable. It is a major effort by a great writer, one that few other writers would attempt. Even when it does not come off, a major Faulkner effort towers above many works that achieve their lesser ends. But unless his poor luck in the bookstores changes over night...
Sounding Board. To organize and kindle this new enthusiasm, rising young newspaperman Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, publisher of the intellectual magazine L'Express, began a series of informal diners du travail. Jacques Soustelle, De Gaulle's bright young lieutenant, came, so did young MRPers of Bidault's party like André Monteil and Robert Buron, and Socialists like Robert Lacoste and Gaston Defferre. Says Servan-Schreiber: "First, we had to get a sounding board for Mendès. With his isolation in Parliament, he made brilliant speeches but there was no political echo. Secondly, he had always...
...huge (60,000 students) Sorbonne one morning last month, big yellow posters suddenly appeared for all Paris to see: CLOSED FOR LACK OF FUNDS. That same day, teachers and students went out on strike, milled about the streets, blocked traffic, demonstrated in front of the Bourse du Travail. The Sorbonne, however, was not demonstrating alone. Virtually every lycée (secondary school) and university in France had also closed down...