Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Clare Boothe Luce stepped off the Italian liner Andrea Doria in April, 1953 to become U.S. ambassador to Italy, she walked into a nation in crisis. The Italian national elections were just coming up. Communists and monarchists were closing in from left and right on the teetering Christian Democratic government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Communist daily L'Unita, eager to slander the U.S., hooted at her as a "comicopera ambassador." A rightist magazine hailed her arrival with a full-page cartoon of an American flag trimmed with lace. Last week when Clare Luce, 53, resigned...
Even so, there was little faith that the Russians would comply with the U.N.'s demands, and the utility of a U.N. which could win nothing but moral victories over the U.S.S.R. was increasingly in doubt. Bitterly French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau told the General Assembly: "The U.N. must decide to impose its decisions on everyone or resign itself to impose them...
...Oldest Christian tradition identifies Sinai with Jebel Serbal, an inaccessible 6,750-ft. peak with an oasis, well watered but perhaps too small to have supplied the Israelites...
...takes an Egyptian child bride as a favor to Napoleon, who dreams of founding a new dynasty and a new race in the Middle East. But the French are halted at Acre, plague decimates their ranks, the fellahin reject Enlightenment for the savage joys of Holy War against the Christian dogs. Napoleon is defeated by fate, and Rémi by Corinne. Author McKenney, who has spent nearly four years in writing Mirage, tells her complicated story in an elliptic, literary shorthand that conveys much information quickly but will be the despair of some readers. Nearly every page is scattered...
...life has already become something of a legend, encrusted in contradictions. As a Jew, she fulminated against Judaism. As a Christian, she could never bring herself to join any church (she was most drawn to Roman Catholicism). Born of a well-to-do Jewish agnostic family, she was barely five when she refused to eat sugar because French front-line soldiers in World War I were deprived of it. At 14, she dispensed with socks because the children of the poor could not wear them. As a young schoolteacher, she flirted with Marxism. To "understand" the workingman, she took...