Word: ancien
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...puis, prince ne daigne. Rohan suis"- "King I cannot be, to be prince I disdain. I am Rohan." This sublimely arrogant ancien régime motto suggests Bruce's transactions with the artists he knew in Paris. The main influences on him were Cézanne and, above all, Matisse (Bruce once lent Picasso money, but refused to take his art seriously: it was too showy and volatile for him.) His homages to Matisse never ended. Matisse's insistence on achieving structure through local color contrast lies behind Bruce's post-cubist compositions of 1916, in which...
NATIONAL CONVENTIONS have had a habit of running wild--the idea of a people assembled has historically given them an aura of political legitimacy. A national assembly toppled the ancien regime in France, and it was a national convention to revise the Articles of Confederation that decided 200 years ago to start from scratch instead and create a whole new law for the land...
...measure of Britain's postwar decline. When Charles de Gaulle returned to power in 1958, one of his first acts was to restore the French franc to strength with a currency reform that devalued the franc, established an austerity program and even symbolically replaced the Monopoly-money ancien franc with a nouveau franc at a rate...
...though to varying degrees. Robert Sullivan, a history tutor in Kirkland House, shies away from discussing his term of Army duty in South Vietnam. "I'm sorry to be disobliging, but although I'm something of a fount of Saigon tales, I don't think my experiences with the ancien regime are worthy of splashing across the newspaper page at the breakfast table." Sullivan says. "I was stationed in Saigon, but never carried a rifle...
Such a deflation of a revolution's spirit is not inevitable, as the American case might lead one to believe, in France, for instance, the example of 1789 proved alive enough in 1968 to inspire another generation clashing with a modern-day ancien regime. As they marched through the streets of Paris, the students of the Sorbonne and the workers of the Renault factory were confident that they acted in the tradition of the sans-culottes who sparked the overthrow of feudalism's decaying bulk. In Mexico, too, peasants and workers still hope for the fulfillment of the revolution that...