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Near a soft-drink bar in the main building of the University of Ottawa hangs a crudely crayoned sign: "S'il vous plait-please-pas de bouteilles-no bottles-dans le-in the-gym." Students shout to each other in English, answer in French. Professors teach all courses in two languages. Everywhere on the campus of Canada's lone bilingual university le bilinguisme is casually accepted...
...marble-topped tables of the famed Café de Flore, on Paris' Left Bank, where small, homely M. Sartre had first preached Existentialism. The young Existentialists who still hung around the Flore took the news of Resistentialism calmly. Said a philosophy student: "The idea merits attention. Voyes-vous, the antagonism between things and man is nothing new. Even the great Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason seems prepared to grant some mysterious powers to things. In this book Kant admitted that the essential nature of objects remains completely unknown.* The trouble for us Existentialists...
...Paul-Henri was," says Marie Spaak, "the easiest of my children to handle, so sweet and affectionate. He still is. When he takes me to dinner he comes hunting for me in the Senate, asking everyone, 'Avez-vous vu Maman...
...sharpness of tongue, spoke for them all when she said: "Ça, va mal chez moi, comme partout" ("Things are tough at home, and tough all over"). Said Jacques Rumpert, a petit bourgeois like millions of others, who runs a typewriter repair shop at Montparnasse: "Que voulez-vous? I worked hard all my life. My aim was to have a house, with a small garden by the Seine, so I could fish. All that is out now, ... I am not a Gaullist. I'm not a member of the 'Third Force,' and I am not a Communist...
Then Schuman buckled down to work out something really stiff. At 10 a.m. last Saturday he bustled into the Assembly carrying a black briefcase. What was in it? someone asked. Said M. Schuman: "Vous verrez ce que vous verrez" (wait and see). What the Assembly saw amazed it; nothing so strong had been expected. What the Communists saw goaded them to a maniac pitch of fury...