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...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. The 1913 Beiliss trial, the Russian equivalent of the Dreyfus case, becomes an opportunity for Novelist Malamud to analyze the individual beleaguered by orthodoxies...
...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. This fictional version of the Russian equivalent of the Dreyfus case-the Beiliss trial-becomes a vehicle for Malamud's probing analysis of the modern individual beleaguered by orthodoxies...
...francs, with interest, as the largest group of his works ever put up for auction went on the block. The 338 sculptures, drawings and lithographs were only a fraction of the collection of a French banker and founder of breweries through out North Africa named René Gaston-Dreyfus, 80, who began buying Daumiers before World...
Thus it was that France last week found itself reeling under a scandal bridging two continents and of proportions not felt since the Dreyfus Affair at the turn of the century. It has strained ties between Paris and its onetime protectorate, Morocco, exposed France's security forces to charges of either dark collusion or woeful ineptitude, and forced an angry Charles de Gaulle to admit to the world that the much-vaunted probity of his Fifth Republic is badly tarnished...
Between Two Epochs. Mrs. Tuchman finds equal significance in the Dreyfus Affair: "While it lasted, France exhibited, as in the Revolution, political man at his most combative. Men plunged up to the hilt of their capacities and beliefs. They held nothing back. On the eve of the new century the Affair revealed what energies and ferocities were at hand to greet it." And as Jaurès' death dramatized, it was the era in which the Socialist notion that all the workers of the world could unite on anything turned out to be fantasy...