Word: frans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atheists, including Communists. Now, Marxist Roger Garaudy, the leading theoretician of the French Communist party, has written a book called From Anathema to Dialogue to "answer in a fraternal manner the appeal addressed to all" by Roman Catholicism. Praising it in the conservative Paris daily Le Figaro, French Novelist François Mauriac urged his fellow Catholics to "buy this book by a Communist" and read it. German Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner has offered to write a commentary for a German translation...
...pattern the match will take seems fairly clear. Harvard's best wrestlers are concentrated in the lighter weight classes, while Cornell solds three powerful men in a row in the upper brackets: Jeff Stephens at 147, Fran Ferrare at 177, and Bob Buchwald...
...Very interesting," remarked François Mitterrand of his opponent's statistics when his turn came on television, "but unfortunately, not exact." Mitterrand made plain his own unequivocal support for the Atlantic Alliance and a truly united political Europe. "It is sad to note," he observed, "how much Gaullism has come to resemble Vichy, with a monarch and a little court." De Gaulle was like Madame du Barry before the guillotine, he said, pleading "Just another moment, just another moment, Mr. Executioner." The force de frappe? "De Gaulle's diplomatic toy, about as effective for France...
...Versailles (that citadel of un-Christian morals). Inside, mannequins topped with Marie Antoinette hairdos and draped with Dior hostess gowns hold aloft model reindeer and-of all things-old sailing boats. From the ceiling hang huge plastic chandeliers, each of which took 300 hours to make. Said Decorator Jean-François Daigre: "My aim has been to create so much light and color that people will want to enter what is normally a rather mysterious place...
...fidelity that the beholder wants to touch them. The book's first three sections explore the history of tapestry weaving, a history still being written by those-among them Lurçat, at and Miró-who have revived this ancient art. The fourth and last section, by François Tabard, master weaver at Aubusson in France, explains the techniques...