Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Czarist cannonfire in 1812. Last week the route was lined by 800,000 Muscovites waving paper tricolors and shouting "Druzhba!" (friendship). The Napoleonic parallel was completed when De Gaulle was escorted to a spacious apartment within the Kremlin walls, the first Western leader ever so honored and the first Frenchman to sleep there since Bonaparte...
That act of friendly persuasion is quite in keeping with the French role in Europe. De Gaulle shares the traditional French fear of Germany, and has been reluctant to see his trans-Rhine neighbor reunite. In that, De Gaulle is clearly a Frenchman first-but with a pan-European difference. As he said during his election campaign last year: "This country, this France which has bandaged her wounds, and God knows they were serious; this France which is regaining her power; ah, yes, she is devoting herself to establishing an equilibrium in the world. In brief, we are playing...
There is, of course, no such thing as the Asian mind-there are dozens. An Indonesian is as different from a Japanese as a Frenchman from an American. Generalizations never do justice to national differences, but in a kind of shorthand it might be said that the Chinese are practical, pragmatic and irreligious; the Indians are impractical, theoretical and vaguely religious; the Japanese are ritualistic, restrained, esthetic and authoritarian; the Koreans are undisciplined, imaginative and creative; the Laotians are sensitive, pacific and passive; the Vietnamese are sensitive, combative and active. When the great Indian teacher and writer Rabindranath Tagore visited...
When the French returned, Ho ordered Giap as Commander in Chief of the North Viet Nam army to meet General Jacques LeClerc at the airport. Giap flew into a towering rage, ranting that he would never shake hands with any Frenchman. Uncle Ho listened for a while and then said: "You have two hours before his plane arrives, so why don't you go into the corner and cry your eyes out. But be at the airport." Giap went. But such emotional outbursts led Ho to leave Giap at home when he went off to Fontainebleau to negotiate with...
Twelve years ago, Brundage offered his collection to San Francisco. By his stipulation, it took a $3,000,000 public bond issue to raise funds to house it, which the city voted in 1960. He also insisted on appointing his own curator, Yvon d'Argencé, a Frenchman who grew up in Viet Nam and who speaks and writes three Oriental languages...