Word: corsica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly a thousand homes in France between 5 and 6 one morning fortnight ago turned out to be those of French policemen. Once inside, the cops informed their victims-refugees from a score of nations-that they had 20 minutes to dress and pack for an enforced trip to Corsica. At the request of Soviet officials, the French government had decided to clear Metropolitan France of "potential assassins" before Nikita Khrushchev arrived in Paris. And presumably they would now have to wait out Khrushchev's postponement as well...
...greatest number were aging Eastern European propagandists and journalists, who hardly seemed threats to anyone.* In Corsica, touted by French tourist agents as "the Isle of Beauty," the involuntary vacationers found themselves ensconced in resort hotels opened, by police order, a month before the normal tourist season. In their dark suits and berets, playing cards, smoking, engaging in the familiar polemic dialogues of expatriates, they transformed a cheerful, terraced Mediterranean café into the atmosphere of a coffeehouse in Bucharest. The internees' expenses were paid by the government; much of the time the weather was warm enough for swimming...
...latest volume of the delightful Yale University series, The Private Papers of James Boswell (seven published, eight or ten to come) opens in 1769, when Boswell is a fast-rising, 29-year-old Edinburgh lawyer. Thanks to his bestselling book, The Account of Corsica, he is also a writer perhaps better known on the Continent than Sam Johnson himself. Bozzy's vagarious search for a wife, described in the previous volume, has succeeded, and for the moment at least he is well-behaved. When he visits London in 1772 without his wife, he is tempted by "a variety...