Word: canapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conversational Canapés. Gunther's theory of history (and Gibbon's) is that events are shaped by "accidents of personality." Focusing on each country mainly through its key men, he succeeds best with those he knows. He did not interview Adenauer (though he notes later that der Alte "will see almost anybody") and his sketch of "this tenacious old gentleman" seems curiously flimsy. On the other hand, he vividly pictures De Gaulle-whom he interviewed before the return to power-as "gnarled with ego" and "positively lunar," yet possessed of a curious humility that prompted...
...Simple Canapés. Except where wealthy men are in charge, U.S. embassies are often forced to serve bread while rivals offer cake. To celebrate the anniversary of the October Revolution, the Soviet embassy in Bonn last year hired the city's best club, lavished 500 guests with vodka, Crimean champagne and caviar. For the traditional Fourth of July celebration, able U.S. Ambassador Walter C. Dowling, a careerman, could afford only $287-enough to give 360 visitors a pass at trays of simple canapes and a sip of cheap German sparkling wine. In Leopoldville, where the Belgians established...