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Self-interest, in La Rochefoucauld's view, was clearly the carrot that made men trot, as money was later singled out by Balzac, and sex by Freud. Yet, in obsessively concentrating on one human trait, as Author-Critic Louis Kronenberger points out in his new translation of the Maxims (Random House; $3.50), La Rochefoucauld narrowed his vision. Indeed, some of the maxims are strangely naive and platitudinous, suggesting once again that cynicism is sentimentality in reverse-and that, perhaps, the sheltered courtier could have learned from the crude common sense of the peasant. Yet at his best, as Kronenberger...
...Most of them in the tradition of Union soldiers, who dubbed it the Virginia or Tennessee quickstep, depending on where they were campaigning. Currently popular: turista in most of Latin America; "Aztec two-step" or "Montezuma's revenge" in Mexico; "Turkey trot" and "Gyppy tummy" in the Middle East; "Delhi belly" in India; and-universally-"the trots" and "the G.I.'s" referring not to government issue but to gastrointestinal symptoms...
Director Saslavsky has run this multi-gaited film at a graceful trot midway between all-out comedy and lead-footed sentimentality. As the repentant Papa, Yves Montand contributes most to the picture's warm stability; but it is skinny-shanked Yves Noel, as the boy, who rates credit for its glow...
...part of L.L. and the disk-jockeys, Lester's music did not seem to move the populace to a spirit of dancing. Indeed, there were probably no more than ten people dancing in the entire square, two of which Vag noticed rocking to a medium-pace Lanin fox-trot. After this set was completed, followed again by a deafening silence, a long line of state and local celebrities filed onto the bandstand to say a few ungrammatical sentences to the assembly. Most nobable among them was perhaps Mayor Phil Des-Rosiers who welcomed one and all, expressed hopes...
...from a teaspoon, then-beer from a bottle! And the next thing you know, your son is playin' fer money in a pinchback suit. And list'nin' to some big out-a-town Jasper hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin'. Not a wholesome trot tin' race. No! But a race where they set down right on the horse! Like to see some stuck-up Jockey-boy settin' on Dan Patch? . . . Trouble-oh, we've got Trouble, right here in River City. Trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with...