Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such droll, needling cartoons are not softened a bit by the text they illustrate. Week in, week out, Charles de Gaulle comes under irreverent attack in the French satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné (the Chained Duck...
Anything but chained, the Duck pokes more fun at the man it calls "le grand Charletan" than any other French publication. Nor does it spare anyone else who merits attack. Last week the eight-page weekly celebrated 50 years of ridiculing the high and the mighty, the smug and the pretentious in French life. Proud of the Duck's surviving without mellowing, staffers boast: "The duck still has all its teeth...
Combating Hysteria. Over the years, the Duck has learned to clamp those teeth on its enemies and live to bite an other day. Its secret is circuitous attack; it never charges an opponent headon. Stories begin disarmingly: "We of course deny ... It would be false to say . . ." Then they deliver what they are denying in spectacular detail. Thus the Duck gets away with printing stories no other paper dares touch. Once a Deputy not beloved by the Duck sent the paper a letter full of gamy information about government officials. What to do? The Duck solved the problem by running...
...Duck began its bold sniping in 1915, during some of the bleakest days of World War I, when its dry wit turned out to be just what was needed to combat wartime hysteria. At the time, the French press was frantically reporting every defeat as a glorious victory. The Duck did not set out to correct these inaccuracies. Instead, it claimed the biggest victories of all, until it began to make all war reporting look ridiculous. On one occasion, when the press was clucking in astonishment over a German submarine that had traveled as far as the U.S. coast...
...quality. Of the quartet, only Heard is from the South, showing how trustees of their schools reached out to seek the best available men anywhere. Yet Savannah-born Alex Heard, 48, is even more outspokenly critical of Southern educational provincialism than the three Northerners. "We in the South cannot duck behind the thought that if we show up in the rear ranks in national ratings, the ratings measure the wrong things," he says...