Word: nous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Each week some 4,000,000 Italians, mostly women, pay an estimated $385,000 for the latest copies of Dream, Eternal Passion, Sun in My Eyes, My Woman, Grand Hotel and dozens of other fumetti publications. Fumetti magazines have also proved popular in other Latin countries: the fumetti-like Nous Deux (We Two) has the largest weekly circulation (upwards of 1,700,000) in France...
...along the 1200-mile arc from Casablanca to Tunis last week, people-Arabs and French alike-mourned the sorry state of things with the same cliché: Nous sommes dépassés par les événements (We are outstripped by events). As long as the war in Algeria continued, there was not much hope for peace or stability in neighboring Tunisia and Morocco, and both of them were in sore trouble...
...Theatre du Vieux Colombier nous a apporte une representation bien vivante. Ce n'est pas Racine tel que l'on acoutume de le voir. Il est joue avec une force, vraiment une ferocite, qui laisse le spectateur lui-meme epuise apres quelques scenes. Mais c'etait une force quelquefois ingouvernable--chez Marguerite Jamois (Agrippine), Hubert Noel (Brittanicus), et Jacques Francois (Neron, un monstre ne peut-etre plutot qu'un monstre naissant); une force pas toujours accordee a la tension si forte des lignes alexandrins eux-memes. Mais dans le role de Narcisse, Raymond Gerome a ete merveilleux, une belle anguille...
World War II. On the day France surrendered to the Nazis in 1940, Jacques Massu, still a lieutenant commanding a fort in the Sahara scribbled a "rude French word'' in his diary and beneath it the pledge: "Nous vainerons" (We shall win). Hearing De Gaulle's radio appeal from London, Massu joined the Free French in Africa, was nicked in the calf by an Italian bullet in a desert battle, calmly cauterized the wound himself with a cigarette, fought on across North Africa and into France and Germany as a lieutenant colonel with General Le-clerc...
...Nous the Fallout. The Tom-Lila-Chris axis turns mainly on romanticized undergraduate japes, e.g., a ten-day blackjack game, a 100-mile drive in a stolen milk truck. The trio and their clique habitually see life through one too many cocktail glasses, but the stem of boredom keeps breaking between their fingers. Chris bleeds to death in an auto crash, and Tom and Lila individually reach respectability across the great divide that separates the hipsters from the squares...