Word: chateaubriand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some back-home newspapers blasted the conference. "Fiasco!" snorted Brazil's Press Lord Assis Chateaubriand. But reactions often combined realism with optimism. In Uruguay, the daily El Plata joked about the U.S. reluctance to go in for Latin American giveaways. "The U.S. knows only too well the similarity between Latin American economic administration and sacks with holes or barrels without bottoms." On vacation in Newport, President Eisenhower examined the conference's results, reflected most delegates' reactions by calling them "an outstanding statement of the principles and objectives of inter-American economic cooperation...
...impertinence and thrown into the Bastille itself for his political gibes. The philosophes of the Enlightenment freely claimed (and were freely granted) credit for fomenting the Revolution. Victor Hugo was peremptorily exiled for 20 years for his support of the 1848 Revolution. François René de Chateaubriand, first proponent of Christian democracy, became Louis XVIII's Foreign Minister. Emile Zola rocked Europe with J'accuse, a defense of Dreyfus that was in fact an indictment of the established order...
Hope & Despair. For 300 years, the great dialogue in France has been between Faith and Reason, between Pascal, Bossuet and Chateaubriand on one hand, Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau on the other. That dialogue animated the 27-year correspondence between Poet-Diplomat Paul Claudel, an unswerving Catholic who never doubted God, and André Gide. the backslid Protestant who never doubted the individual-a controversy generally conducted in scrupulously courteous and self-Centered letters, but frequently so agitated that one or the other broke off the correspondence. They ended by not speaking to each other...
...service and wrote his first play (The Exchange) when he was 25, served in a variety of posts in Europe and the Far East while turning out mystical poetic dramas, eventually became his country's Ambassador to the U.S. (1927-33) and its most distinguished writer-diplomat since Chateaubriand. In 1935. he retired to devote all of his time to writing. Although most of his plays were heavy with Roman Catholic symbolism and too long for staging, he became a popular as well as a critical success in later years with the postwar productions of his operas, Christophe Colomb...
...President Dick Nixon, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Old Presidential Friend Lucius Clay, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, Deputy President Sherman Adams, Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, ex-White House Assistant C. D. Jackson-along with nine others whose views he respects. After a dinner of steak Chateaubriand, they talked strategy over liqueurs in the Red Room until 11:30, well beyond the usual quitting time for Ike's stag dinners...