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Almost his first act was to summon the director of France's state-controlled radio and television networks. Under De Gaulle, the O.R.T.F. (Office de la Radio et Télévision Française) was a shamelessly partisan instrument of politics. For the forthcoming election, Poher told the director, it must be absolutely impartial. If it is not, he warned, he will carry his complaint straight to the French public. Poher does not really have the power to give that kind of order, but on hearing of his threat, Couve reportedly blanched. Poher is almost certain...
...fond of boasting that he had taken every woman he wanted, and some he hadn't. When he left handsome, auburn-haired Hadley for his second wife, Pauline (a Vogue fashion editor, "small and determined as a terrier"), he described himself as "son of a bitch sans peur et sans reproche." Author Martha Gellhorn was No. 3-he wooed her during the Spanish Civil War and separated from her in World War II. She complained that he took too few baths-and besides, she had her own career as novelist and journalist to follow. Hemingway classified her with...
Augustine's doctrine proved durable. For John Calvin, Adam's fall "perverted the whole order of nature in heaven and on earth." To Martin Luther, man was simul justus et peccator-a sinner savable by God's grace received through faith alone. The 16th century Council of Trent re-endorsed Augustine's attack on Pelagianism for the Counter-Reformation Catholic Church. And only last year, Pope Paul rephrased the traditional understanding of original sin as part of his modern creed...
...function of Black Film was perfectly clear: to reflect the attitudes, aspirations, and problems of Afro-Americans, and to offer suggestions for the resolution of black problems. The validity of the other differences mentioned--tone, rhythm et al--is open to question...
This production of Pelleas et Melisande is one of the most significant musical events of the year. It is an opera in which apprehension and enjoyment are indissuble. We have no vocabulary with which to discuss Pelleas and that is probably a blessing. Its demands are all the more exacting because the work seems so insubstantial. Debussy's humble, intellectual, tender music evokes a complex dramatic tissue in which each chord serves to intensify awareness of suffering. This great work whispers the secret that "People die discreetly, like one who has had enough of this planet, the Earth...