Word: alp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ALP by William Hjortsberg. 157 pages. Simon & Schuster. $4.95. A honeymooning American couple, a witch, a dwarf, assorted deaths, a mad seduction in a careening telepherique-adding up to zero...
Staid during the season and stultifying offseason, Montreux is a natural haven for a genius with billowing dreams and a narrowing future. It is a two-street town, one low and one high, dumped at the foot of one Alp and facing another across Lake Geneva. Beyond the town is Byron's Castle of Chillon, the big tourist attraction of the area...
Modifications in policy are as subtle for France's President Charles de Gaulle as the erosion of an Alp. Thus grandeur watchers saw a significance of sorts in his presence as host at an official farewell luncheon for U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, 63. While "France does not constantly approve" of American actions, De Gaulle said, getting in a few pro forma licks, the two nations could nevertheless still rely on their "capital of reciprocal interest, attraction and admiration." De Gaulle then intoned a toast to Bohlen, who is returning to Washington as Deputy Under Secretary of State...
Three weeks ago, a pretty German became the first known hit-and-run skier to be arrested. Skiing down an Austrian Alp, she had crashed into another girl, jabbing a ski pole through her cheek, and then disentangled herself to schuss merrily on down without so much as a word. But because no law covers the situation precisely, it is uncertain just what will happen to the offender...
...this does not prove to be true: Mau-riac's quivering admiration simply is too great to be contained. The reader never really grasps what lies behind the De Gaulle mystique; he is merely reassured in passage after adulatory passage that it is there like a towering, providential Alp, and that De Gaulle is correct when he states with "calm certainty that he is the State and, it may not be too much to say, France herself...