Word: french
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before De Gaulle, no French government would have dared outrage French liberals and leftists by clasping hands with Dictator Franco. Even now not all Frenchmen would appreciate Franco's testimonial that De Gaulle's return to power "shows to what extent that country which gave birth to the democratic system of government abominates it and rejects it." On their side of the Pyrenees, the Spanish still nurse resentments from the Napoleonic invasion...
Dinner guests at the Soviet embassy spread the word that the cuisine and cellar were excellent. Mme. Vinogradov, an amateur painter herself, began encouraging young French artists to drop around, even abstractionists, whose decadent works would never find favor in Moscow. And soon columnists were speculating on which London tailor the ambassador might be patronizing...
...counterpart in Washington, "Smiling Mike" Menshikov, it is partly because Vinogradov is on excellent terms with President Charles de Gaulle. This goes back to 1944, when Vinogradov was ambassador in Ankara. There, one day, a representative of General Charles de Gaulle approached him and asked that Moscow recognize the French government in exile. Vinogradov not only passed on the request but urged Moscow to grant it. When De Gaulle visited Stalin a year later, it was Vinogradov who was specially recalled to make him feel at home...
...will be back." On eight different occasions, he sought out the general for private interviews, usually at the office De Gaulle inhabited on his weekly visits to Paris. Each time, Vinogradov noted the general's growing impatience with NATO and his obsession with the steady decline of French prestige. After De Gaulle was swept back into power, Vinogradov's own prestige soared. "Khoroshy chelovek [excellent fellow]" he would say when asked what he thought of the general, and at the Elysée Palace, De Gaulle began to refer to the Russian as "mon Gaulliste...
...wildly imagistic liner notes by Poet Louis Aragon celebrate one of the oddest pop hits ever recorded-a French disk titled Heartbeat, featuring Composer Marie Philippe-Gérard and his "cardiac rhythms." One side is devoted to cha cha cha, the other to a Gallic rock 'n' roll. In each case, the rhythm section includes a thumping human heart...