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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: LA ROCHEFOUCAULD: SAGE & CYNIC | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Turista | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 6, 1958 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remember the Alamo | 10/1/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pied Piper of Broadway | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

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