Word: etting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long ago, De Gaulle, who has done so much for France, snapped: "When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself." Even if he should win on Dec. 19, he found out on Dec. 5 that France has begun to think for itself. The distinction between letat et lui has been drawn, and it is not likely to be forgotten...
After the weekly Cabinet meeting, French Premier Georges Pompidou, 54, took over as le boss of the new Haul Comité pour la Défense et l'Expansion de la Langue Française, formed to ferret out all the linguistic "degradation and corruption" of franglais in the land where tons les types enjoy le shopping at le drugstore, having a whisky-soda or gin and tonic served by le barman while they watch the playboys with sex appeal in smokings (tuxes) stroll by on their way to le dancing or le striptease. Ah, M. Pompidou...
...particularly distressing to those of us in Comstock Hall to read of the proposed hike in room and board for Radcliffe. Not that we are totally out to ruin the Cliffie image of soiled hair et al., but we have been without hot water for three weeks--except at odd hours of the early morning. This has meant lukewarm washings of dinner dishes as well, which does nothing for the desirability of our meals. Before the college seeks to rectify the deficit in its budget, it should perhaps consider the inferior "room and board" it is now giving its students...
...George Schaefer. Now that Playhouse 90, the Alcoa Hour, Kraft Theater and Studio One have gone, Schaefer's Hallmark Hall of Fame is virtually the only greenery left. The other directors spawned in the golden days of live and tape television-Arthur Penn, Sidney Lumet, John Frankenheimer, et al.-have all gone to graze in the lusher pastures of Broadway or Hollywood. Only Schaefer still does business at the same old stand. For him 60 feet of studio space still offer acres of opportunity and fulfillment, as he proved with last week's Inherit the Wind...
...basically land-oriented state of mind, which he can persuasively argue was vestigial feudalism, to a totally disoriented materialism. He celebrates "age segregation," the war and post-war generations' cult of self which, even if it sounds a trifle too much like the emancipation proclamations of Aldous Huxley et al. some 40 years ago is still a real and well observed phenomenon...