Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side of the Republic." The moderate MRP's leaders were cautious and worried. The Right's approval of De Gaulle was markedly reserved. Communist L'Humanité demanded an Assembly debate to forbid Army officers to listen to De Gaulle. Worried about the increased danger of civil war, Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier paid a hasty visit to De Gaulle. In his white-walled villa, over black coffee, "le grand Charlie" tried to reassure Ramadier. "I am no Boulanger,"* De Gaulle said. Ramadier was taking no chances. The two men agreed that henceforth De Gaulle would...
...Audisio turned to the present: "I've spoken as one whose only desire is to be a good soldier. . . . We Communists, we Partisans should be ashamed that there are still persons in Italy who question the purity of the people's sacrifices. . . . We have no fear of civil...
...went to the president of the local Fascist Agrarian Workers' Federation and said: "You're a Fascist and I'm a Communist, but you must remember I used to do your lessons in school for you." This approach won him a series of comfortable civil service jobs in the Fascist administration, which he held till the party told him to become a Partisan. Today, at 37, he lives like a petty bourgeois in a one-room apartment, is interested in the film-producing business, loves Dante's Divine Comedy, especially Canto V ("Love led us down...
...Senator Beauregard Claghorn (Kenny Delmar), a julep-slupping burlesque of a Southern politico, a latter-day Civil Warrior with a mouth as big as the Mississippi's and a brain the size of a hominy grit. The Senator's development has been arrested in an artistic sense, too. After only six minutes on the air (four programs), his "That's a joke, son!" and "That is" were national bywords. Allen, who intended the Senator to have a far larger comic vocabulary, has been forced to give the public what it wants: plenty of nothing...
Married. Zinka Milanov, 40, Yugoslav-born Metropolitan Opera soprano; and Major General Lyubomir Ilic, 42, Yugoslav officer and diplomat, a commander in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, general in the French Resistance Army in World War II, close friend of Marshal Tito; at the Yugoslav Embassy; in Washington...