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EARTHLY PARADISE, by Colette, edited by Robert Phelps. From random reminiscences that Colette published from time to time, Editor Phelps has skillfully constructed a sort of accidental biography that reveals her as the most extraordinary character in her oeuvre...
EARTHLY PARADISE, by Colette: edited by Robert Phelps. A life of sensualism and intellectual adventure is traced in Colette's random reminiscences; nothing in her own sensitive fiction is as fascinating as the story of her emergence from the shadow of a cynical, exploiting husband...
Mechanically fair as a random drawing may seem to be, there will continue to be exemptible exceptions-which would almost certainly lead again to cries of inequity. Beyond that, the President must have some month-to-month flexibility in the number of men he can call up for service. And the premise that in a situation like today's, a majority of men would be forever free from military service on the basis of mere luck would seem to put unnecessary-and possibly unwise-restrictions on presidential policymaking. As salty old Lieut. General Lewis Hershey, U.S. selective-service chief...
EARTHLY PARADISE, by Colette; edited by Robert Phelps. Colette (1873-1954) was the most important woman novelist that the French have produced in a century; this magnificent collection of her random reminiscences shows that she was just as important as a memoirist, a female Montaigne who drank the cup of folly till she tasted the dregs of wisdom...
Weekend at Dunkirk. This random, well-photographed essay on the futility of war will prove a letdown to audiences lured by the marquee pull of Jean-Paul Belmondo. As a French soldier sweating through the British evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, Belmondo braves German bullets, saves Catherine Spaak from rape, and growls defiance in a flat Yankee accent. Seems he has been dubbed as well as drubbed, and any nuances that his gravelly, one-of-a-kind voice might have lent to the performance are effectively erased. With only one ace in the whole, the distributors of Dunkirk might have...