Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Frenchman: If the Russians invade France, Mr. Truman will drop his atom bombs on Russia, but not on Paris...
...from a Hypnotist. Austrian Anton Mesmer, who gave his name (mesmerism) to a technique now called hypnotism, has been called a faker. More likely, some modern psychiatrists think, he was a stupid man who blundered into an idea too big for him: the phenomena of suggestion and suggestibility. A Frenchman, Jean Martin Charcot, demonstrated that hypnotism could both arouse and quiet symptoms of hysteria. Charcot also bid for fame as the teacher of a Viennese neurologist named Sigmund Freud (rhymes with overjoyed...
Laguerre's use of the American idiom to make his point is one of the special qualifications he has for his job as TIME'S chief correspondent in Paris. A quiet, bespectacled Frenchman, he also probably has as intimate a knowledge of French and Western European politics as any reporter on the continent. He picked up his knowledge of the American idiom by virtue of some years spent in San Francisco, where his father was French Consul, his unquenchable enthusiasm for American baseball as a sports reporter on the San Francisco Chronicle. A fortnight ago he renewed both...
Last week's U.N. story starts, properly, with a bearded, 16th Century Frenchman called Jean Bodin, who believed in witchcraft, numerology, astronomy a"nd national sovereignty...
Powder Kegs & Lollipops. No worthwhile estimate of the chances of war can be made (as the Frenchman made his) on the basis of an isolated issue, whether it be Hitler's drive for Poland or Stalin's for Berlin. Great nations are not powder kegs exploding into war at the drop of a carelessly tossed diplomatic démarche. Nor are they children, to be pacified by a conciliatory lollipop. Situations ripe for war find the specific issues (sometimes quite trivial ones, like Sarajevo) that start the shooting. Situations not ripe for war ignore specific issues (sometimes very...