Word: wagram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general elections. Implicit purpose: to oust Léon Martinaud-Déplat as the party's administrative boss. Martinaud-Déplat yielded to the demand but spitefully made the bleakest arrangements possible: he scheduled a daytime congress last week in Paris' dreary, colonnaded Salle Wagram, knowing that a wrestling match was due to begin at 6:30. "If Mendès wants to fight," said Martinaud-Déplat sourly, "let him stay on and fight against the fighters...
...This went along quite well until he hit a book in 1951 called Rock Wagram. Something happened here. Saroyan discovered that this pattern was unacceptable. To love, he discovered, one must have someone to love, and despite the fact that he wanted his characters to love each other for the good in them, he found that the senseless world often exerted pressures on certain individuals which made them unacceptable objects of this love...
...Rock Wagram was a tragedy. The Laughing Matter is the same story. It is a story in which the author points out that the individual, no matter how hard he seeks to live in this world of love, cannot succeed. It is all frustration and despair, and it ends in a hopeless muddle. To put it in the terms of his leading a character, Evan Nazerenus, "And finally, he felt the laughter. It was an accident though. It was one accident after another, ending in laughter...
...leaders to the hospital. Last week, as France's election campaign got under way (Frenchmen will elect a new Parliament June 17), the French Titoists announced that they would run candidates in 30 departments, held their first big rally. At the meeting in Paris' gaudy Salle Wagram Communists threw tear-gas bombs. Several people had to be carried from the hall. Said the Communist Humanite about the group: "A bunch of traitors . . . collected from various garbage cans...