Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Subs & Surrenders. As a Torch planner, "General Lem" joined the secret party, led by General Mark Clark, that slipped into North Africa by submarine in 1942, to find French commanders who would defy Vichy and support the forth coming invasion.* Like Clark (who lost his pants while scurrying back to the waiting submarine), Lemnitzer had some close calls: he had to hide in a wine cellar when nosy Vichy French gendarmes came to investigate curious circumstances at the clandestine meeting place; later, en route to Torch headquarters in Gibraltar, his B-17 was attacked by three Nazi JU-88s, which...
...artists admired the primitive sculpture. Then, in 1867, when Maximilian's soldiers returned from Mexico with hundreds of figurines, the collectors' interest was piqued. One of the earliest finds was the famed stone statue of Goddess Tlazolteotl in the act of childbirth (see cut). A French collector first bought it for a few francs. Current owner: U.S. Collector Robert Woods Bliss, who has it insured...
...city's French element was numerically supreme but economically impotent. Despite occasional outburts expressing dissatisfaction, the French were influential only in the sense that a French maid is influential in getting the dishes washed. With the arrival of the Depression, some of the Calvinists found themselves washing their own dishes in the gloomy loneliness of their homes high up the slope of Mount Royal...
...when the war came, Montreal lost the look of an English island garrison surrounded by a French shanty town. The city grew into a strategic centre for shipping, communications and the military; prosperity returned to the Calvinists, but only at the price of a middle class invasion from which they never really recovered. At war's end, demobilization in Europe brought a huge influx of refugees--not merely the weary Britons looking for a second chance, but also a dynamic hoard of bright-eyed central and east Europeans. The newcomers, adaptable and eager to make good, often had technical skills...
...second seeming contradiction is that this work is a startling fusion of primitivism at its most potent, and of high classicism. The two idioms have been blended before by Picasso, but previously this union has been a clear adaptation of the primitive to a European, specifically French vision. This time he unites both without compromise...