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...money and in Little Me, men with money. The theme of Oliver! is a dreadful lack of money, and in Tovarich the problem is how to get rid of boodles of it. If the bored-to-tears hero of Mr. President were not so inarticulate, his theme song would doubtless be, "I'd rather be rich than President." In this company, a gentle, sentimental escapist charmer like She Loves Me is old-fashioned enough...
...thing, le grand Charles was doubtless aware of the latest report of the French Institute of Public Opinion, which revealed that De Gaulle's rating had plummeted nine points over the preceding month, with only 55% of the French populace now "satisfied" with his conduct of the presidency. It was De Gaulle's lowest reading in 14 months...
...Arabian horses, this charioteer, who also drives an automobile, chose in turn to wear his driver's license, a white celluloid button, usually worn on coat lapel, pinned to his fillet at midpoint of his forehead where, as it glanced and gleamed in the sunlight, the spurious interpolation was doubtless supposed by the audience to be some antique jewel of fabulous value...
...catch comes in the admission of this definition. In order to accept it one would have to admit a whole set of terms, "learned words," "verbal connections," "inspiration phase," and doubtless many others. Then words like "passionate," "creativity," and "courage" are invoked to invest the whole with so thoroughly romantic a context that only the unfeeling would resist. Mr. Sollod on the other hand asserts that maybe research in this area could lead to information about phenomena which are again described in terms that presuppose all the paraphernalia of this one school of psychological thinking...
...second popular half-truth is that de Gaulle is trying to build a neutralist "third force." Sometimes it is given suggested that his ulterior goal is a separate French bargain with the Soviets (a prospect which doubtless alarms the Harvard community less than it does the public at large). This particular myth has gone so far that the recent renewal of an old Franco-soviet trade agreement was described in the press as the harbinger of disaster...