Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Claire's Knee. The fifth of Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" is a sort of bagatelle within a book within a film. It's a wierd sort of whymsical fiction about a diplomat on vacation who becomes hopelessly pre-occupied with the knee of a seventeen year old girl who could care less about him -- all of which Rohmer presents as a story coming to life in the mind of a real-life author who keeps considering and rearranging the events as he writes. Rohmer handles this narrative complexity light-heatedly enough to make it fun rather than pretentious...
...fitting memento of their meeting. The President and the Russian diplomat had just concluded what may prove to be the most productive round of strategic arms limitation talks since Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Gerald Ford set SALT II guidelines in Vladivostok in November 1974. At his press conference later in the week, Carter said that the Soviets "have been fairly flexible in their attitude and we have tried to match their cooperative stance ... We have narrowed down the differences to a relatively small number." To avoid raising hopes, the President added that "an immediate agreement...
...Vance and Gromyko's most productive session to date, but their public statements were cautious, even cryptic. After one session, for instance, the Soviet diplomat said to newsmen at the State Department: "We have waded into the stream, but we haven't walked out of it yet because there are lots of rocks. I would like to urge all of you to display some patience." To which Vance added: "Until we get to the other side of the shore, I don't have much to say." At meeting's end, both sides sounded slightly more optimistic...
...compensate for his restlessness as a diplomat, whose functions included those of intelligence operative, he began to write fiction. The Foreign Office forbids its staff to publish under their own names; Cornwell claims to have seen the name Le Carré ("the square") on a London shop window, though the shop was unlisted in any city directory. "Perhaps," he admits, "it's a lie I've come to believe...
...coat in sight?and the book proved the sole bomb of the Le Carré career. It also coincided with the end of the Cornwell marriage. "Like all divorces, it was awful," he concludes tersely. "We both very quickly remarried, and we both have second families." Ann married a British diplomat; a year after his divorce, David wed Jane Eustace, editor at Cornwell's English publishers, Hodder & Stoughton. After Son Nicholas was born in 1972 the new family centered on the cliff house in Cornwall. To go farther west from London and still dwell in England, the citizen would have...