Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...supplied his characters with flesh and blood, but made the flesh ache and the blood shiver with fear as the sinner stood alone before God, smitten with a sense of guilt and remorse. In his poems and his plays, in his 23 novels and his political musings for Le Figaro and L'Express, the Nobel-prizewinning author explored the nature of human corruption perhaps more exhaustively than any other contemporary writer. When he died last week at 84, France mourned the loss not only of one of its most illustrious men of letters but also of a voice...
...Monde, La Stampa, and Corriere della Sera. At 8:30, in the garden under a centuries-old oak tree, Paul receives a worldwide news briefing that often focuses on church matters: excerpts from a German paper's comments on Vatican finances, for example, or the story in Figaro on a liberal theological congress. At 10, the Pope begins private audiences with important Curia prelates, visiting churchmen and other dignitaries. Only on Sundays, when the Pope makes a brief appearance above the palace courtyard, and on Wednesdays, the general-audience day, does the routine vary. Then cars jam the roads...
Persistent Pressure. Servan-Schreiber's precise role in obtaining Theodorakis' release was unclear. The pro-Gaullist Le Figaro, no friend of the man who founded the anti-Gaullist magazine L'Express and is secretary-general of France's rejuvenated Radical Party, called it A PUBLICITY STUNT in headlines. Cynics pointed out that the Greek junta had already quietly informed the Council of Europe that it was willing to release Theodorakis...
...Europeans, who generally assume they have seen everything, the show was something of a revelation. "Curious paradox: the youngest among the world's great powers, the United States possesses the oldest, the most original, and just about the most authentic naive painters," admitted Paris' Figaro Littéraire with an air of astonishment. The show consisted of 111 naive American paintings from the collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, and by the time it closed, 35,000 Frenchmen had flocked to the Grand Palais to see it. In Berlin, 15,000 poured through the Amerika Haus...
...When the co-owner of Figaro, Industrialist Jean Prouvost, 84, made it clear that he intended to take over as editorial director as well, the staff united to demand rights similar to Le Monde's -including a say in choosing a director. Prouvost was unbending, and the dispute led to a warning strike in October 1968 and a 15-day staff walkout last May. Finally, Prouvost agreed to the staffers' demand for enough seats on a proposed management committee to give them the veto right they sought. But when he made a bid for the power "to engage...