Word: bern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replace Vincent in Bern, the President last week nominated bluff Richard C. Patterson Jr., once Ambassador to Yugoslavia, more recently to Guatemala...
What makes Novelist Romain Gary's pessimism significant is that it is not just the outpouring of a maladjusted highbrow. Gary is no Sartre watching life as a spectator. A French career diplomat now stationed in Bern, Switzerland, he has behind him a solid record as a fighter pilot in the French Air Force, which he joined in 1938. His novel, written in 1947-48, shows the extent to which many in Europe had lost heart, and lost their grip on the beliefs that made Europe great, in the fifth decade of the 20th Century...