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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much else that lies in the 8,000-word constitution of De Gaulle seems obscure and remains to be determined by "organic laws" yet to be written, but a powerful new nine-man Constitutional Council (three members each appointed by the President of the Senate, the President of the Assembly and the President) will have much the same power as the U.S. Supreme Court to determine the legality of laws and acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE POWERFUL PRESIDENT OF FRANCE | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...Actress Rush eye each other at length. As soon as he is strong enough to stand up, they both lie down, and the sanctity of the home makes its uneasy return only instants before the film's end. As Harry, Swashbuckler Granger reads his lines as they were written, which is a serious disservice to the writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...Grove; clothbound, $3.50; paperback, $1.75), is based on the author's notion that "the world is neither significant nor absurd. It is. That is the most remarkable thing about it." Proceeding from this Istentialist view, Author Robbe-Grillet, hero of Europe's avant-garde critics, has written a sort of whodunit in which the question of whodunit is never answered. To a French offshore island comes Mathias, a watch salesman. Little is told about him, but it is soon plain that he is close to insanity and that his special aberration, like that of Lolita's Humbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beware the Blob | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...shouted and gave her a long cruel kiss"). Last stop, the Riviera: clear sunlight, indolent and pagan bathers, the evening of life. Along the way are conducted side trips to World War I, the Spanish Civil War, marriage and the art forms of the Fauves, impressionists, cubists, Dadaists-all written in racy, journalistic prose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bohemia with Baedeker | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Like papers at other colleges, the Brown and White heaps editorial column calumnies on other campus organizations and squabbles with the University administration about misquotations. Joe Varilla, the editor-in-chief, claims that he was once handed a written statement by a dean, published it, and then accused of misquoting...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Lehigh: Mountain Monolith Of 'Cultured' Engineering | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

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