Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respectability on the international scene, would get backing on its summit conference proposal and a promise of peace overtures towards Formosa. In exchange, Russia would step up economic assistance, wholeheartedly support the Chinese position in Tibet, and furnish nuclear weapons to its neighbor (perhaps in time to coincide with French tests in the Sahara...
...moustache, his long white hair, and his blue suit and vest, Pound is as industri ous today as ever. His five-volume work on jurisprudence came out in June. Besides his articles and speeches, he keeps up a voluminous correspondence in many languages (he has a writing acquaintance with French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Chinese), and he counsels friends and students who come...
After the war, Schlieker was bounced between the Russians, French and Americans, eventually got the British to give him practically the same job he had under the Nazis: allocating the crumbled remains of German steel for peaceful uses. Eventually, Ruhr steelmen who had many a wartime grudge to settle initiated denazification proceedings against Schlieker, forced the British to fire...
...meaning at all. But the 20th century being what it is, the political interpretation comes first to mind. No period is stated; the prisoner's name carries echoes of Roman civic virtue, the jailers' names are Russian, and the executioner is known (in an echo of the French Revolution?) as M'sieur Pierre. The prison itself is timeless, universal, born of an idea turned into phantasm. Its antic rules ("the management shall in no case be responsible for the loss of property or for the inmate himself"), the handless clock on which a watchman hourly paints...
...Plume de Ma Tante. An acrobatty French revue that leaves English and the audience happily fractured...