Word: edgard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France's Minister of Agriculture Edgard Pisani set would-be wine lovers fermenting last July when he advised colleagues at a Cabinet meeting to lay in a few casks of 1964 because it was probably going to be the best vintage since 1921. To insiders, however, this showed him about as wine-wise as a gas-station attendant in Marseille...
Another concert featured Edgard Varese's Deserts, written in 1954. It shows its age today but in a strangely prophetic way: the synthesis of electronic-tape sounds and live music is now the rage among young avant-garde composers. By alternately contrasting the outer-space grunts and chitterings of his tapes with the conventional tones of live orchestra passages, Varese achieves an organized whole...
...construction of Europe has become irreversible," said Jean Monnet, the aging chief architect of the European Economic Community-a remark he might not have felt up to making a few months earlier. French Agriculture Minister Edgard Pisani, looking as if he had swallowed a succulent mouse, was pleased that he could "now leave with a tranquil heart for my winter sports." And the Times of London, gazing upon the events with an outsider's eye, greeted the news from Brussels as "one of the best Christmas presents the Western world could have...
...Brussels negotiations last week, France's Minister of Agriculture Edgard Pisani threatened "extreme consequences" if De Gaulle's deadline is not met, and Paris warned that it would hold Germany responsible if the Market broke up. What the Germans feared was that once they give in on farm prices, France would refuse to come across on the "Kennedy round," whose tariff cuts would favor German industry more than the French. But France countered, in effect, that the U.S.'s own position for the Kennedy round would not be worked out until the spring, so that advance commitments...
Major antagonists were the French delegation, headed by Agricultural Minister Edgard Pisani. and the West German group, headed by West German Agricultural Minister Werner Schwarz. Chairman of the conference last week was West Germany's Alfred Muller-Armack, who was kept so busy trying to keep peace among the two warring delegations that he had to retire at one stage because of his heart condition...