Word: confidantes
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The Absence of Grace. When The Fall begins, Jean-Baptiste has long since abandoned Paris and the law for a stool in a sleazy Amsterdam bar. There he hangs like a gin-soaked albatross around the neck of a long-suffering listener, perhaps meant to be the reader himself. To...
Sometimes, in pressing U.S. allies to join in solutions, he pressed too hard. In 1953 he threatened an "agonizing reappraisal" of U.S. policy for Western Europe if Europe failed to adopt the over-simplified European Defense Community. (Later he retreated gratefully to Anthony Eden's compromise Western European Union...
As counselor, MacArthur has been a top adviser and confidant to John Foster Dulles, participated in almost every major conference of the last four years, including the summit meeting at Geneva. His role, as a colleague defined it: "A kind of general manager who's always on the firing...
During the French Revolution, Rémi Saint-Victor and the Marquise Corinne de Theuriet narrowly missed appointments with the guillotine. Now, after four years' imprisonment, Remi is back at the Polytechnic Institute where he had been Lavoisier's prize pupil; the marquise is the wife of complaisant...
The sudden explosion of indignation in press and public was sparked by a story in London's garish Sunday Pictorial, a newspaper which seldom earns such international attention. A Pictorial reporter had been given a lift in a limousine into The Hague, and had thereby "become the confidant of...