Word: canard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serving as De Gaulle's Finance Minister. Critics charge that Pinay's appointment is purely political; he is honorary president of the Républicains Indépendants, the Gaullists' chief allies in government. "We would have taken him more seriously," remarked the satirical magazine Le Canard Enchaine, "if he had been five or six years older." Noting that Pinay starts his six-year, $28,000-a-year job in early April, the Canard quacked: "We would have bet on April Fools...
...reminded again by a recent issue of TIME of that oft-repeared "canard", if that is the word, that the idea of the Marshall Plan was born, or at least first exposed to the public, in a Commencement Address by George Marshall in June...
...rained on nearly all of Her Majesty's parades ("The Queen's weather," mused Le Monde), but the drizzle failed to dampen the French welcome. "Bigger crowds for the Queen than for the referendum on Europe," observed the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchai=îné. Elizabeth's French, several reporters noted, was far better than Prime Minister Edward Heath's, and one columnist confided to his readers the great discovery that "the Queen likes all French food except oysters...
SINCE THERE was great awareness at last night's meeting that a strike related to the University would be a bad mistake, we need not take the time to dispose of that canard. And what remains for us to adopt is a strategy involving visible, physical protest and demonstration against the war. Here again, it would be silly to depend on a one-shot, Moratorium-style strategy: our demonstrations must be continuous, and they must escalate in size and militancy. And to grow, they must carry with them a large measure of strong political logic. They may begin with marches...
...canard about feminine instability would be the greatest handicap. Surgeon Edgar Berman earned a low place in the bestiary of Women's Liberation two years ago when he suggested that because of their hormonal chemistry women might be too emotional for positions of power. Yet despite that reputation-or because of it-women in politics have proved just as stable and sometimes as steely as any man. After all, Edmund Muskie wept publicly during the New Hampshire primary campaign last month. It was Richard Nixon, not his wife Pat, who broke down after he was defeated in the California...