Word: crise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Camille le Prial, which last week brought more than a hundred paratroopers smashing through the casbah and resulted in the death of three Moslems, a score injured. Such incidents work to the advantage of the rebels by creating in metropolitan France what the French themselves acknowledge to be a crise de conscience...
...French colons in Algeria such talk is treason. Close to the war, the colons are disgusted by the crise de conscience, say that the National Liberation Front, far from being anxious for a deal, is stepping up its terror campaign with the hope of making the French give up Algeria in despair...
...CRISE SUR LE JAZZ AUX ETATS-UNIS, said the headline in Paris' Combat. French zazous (pure-jazz bugs) who think of the U.S. as a land paved with Louis Armstrongs and Sidney Bechets got a depressing firsthand report on the "crisis," far from new, of U.S. jazz. Wrote French Bandleader Jacques Hélian...
...nervous breakdown, and congratulated him for having learned "to look at nerves, not as a patient, but as an artist." Nonsense, says Tchelitchew. "My nerves are very strong, though I don't know why for I was treated all my life rather badly, by critics especially. My crise de nerfs were microscopical tropical leeches that were exactly eating me to pieces...
...rather proud of being French when one sees imported products of this kind . . ." But as the seats filled and couples in the curtained boxes began to watch the stage again, Carrefour's critic seemed to have caught the audience's mood: "We had a crise de nerfs, we twisted our handkerchiefs, we held on to the arms of our chair . . . Eh bien, la tradition continue...