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STAVISKY, Alain Resnais's first feature in five years, is a sort of symbolic biography of the French swindler (nicely played by Jean-Paul Belmondo) whose exposure almost brought down the Third Republic in 1934. Resnais has had the movie photographed like a posh '30s illustration, a style...
Looking back I think I was forced into thinking of myself as a Southerner more than coming around to that feeling naturally. Anyway, I began to read about the South a great deal and to talk to people about it constantly. I sought out the company of other Southerners, most...
I remember one party during the early summer after my freshman year where all my old classmates sat around talking endlessly about whose fraternity had the most rigorous initiation procedure and what was the best way to drive from Washington and Lee to Sweetbriar, and feeling for the first time...
For those of us on the outside, looking in at Spain, we can do like Hemingway and sit in a hotel room and bang away on a typewriter, constructing on paper a character who partakes in a struggle we ourselves are not part of. Or, naive college students, we can...
Stone to call his book on the period The Haunted Fifties. Historian Fred J. Cook is harsher: his volume is entitled The Nightmare Decade. "To the young generation of today," writes Cook, "it may seem fantastic that for a whole decade there was hardly a whisper of dissent in the...