Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...represented by the multilateral force (MLF), a clumsy concept loved by no soldier, which foresees a boat in some distant sea with a Russia-aimed bomb on board. At the throttle is a German and at the rudder a Briton. Luxembourgeois, Belgians and Dutchmen run the galley, and a Frenchman (if he can be enticed on board at all) is topside yelling "to port" while an Italian beside him shouts "to starboard." Use of the Bomb itself would happen only on U.S. orders. To Gaullists, U.S. insistence on a seaborne MLF, rather than one based on solid ground in Europe...
Played by Jean-Pierre Cassel, Candide is a gentle Frenchman whose arms and legs sort of flap when he runs. Innocent but curious, he bumps into all the calamities of the modern world, from concentration camps to plane crashes. Some of the disasters Voltaire wrote about have remained unchanged: three army divisions get syphilis from raping a certain household servant...
...just a teacher and innovator. His friezes adorn theatres in Paris and Marseilles; his monuments stand in Paris, Warsaw and Buenos Aires. He completed 876 sculptures before his death in 1929, as well as over 6000 drawings, gouaches and watercolors. Anatole France, another friends, called Bourdelle "the most illustrious Frenchman of his time...
CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* An attempt to explain what makes a Frenchman tick, through dramatized excerpts from the works of Camus, Cocteau, Anouilh, De Maupassant and Balzac...
...named after Louis (roughly 1648-1715) was perhaps more profoundly embodied in the frail frame of another Frenchman, Blaise Pascal. Pascal began as a youthful exponent of reason and science-most notably in his studies of atmospheric pressure and the calculus of probabilities-only to recoil in middle life from everything science and reason had apparently achieved. In his last testament, the famous Thoughts on Religion, he emerged as an eloquent defender of religious belief. Science, he declared, was mere presumption, and man could grope his way towards the truth only by renouncing the intellect and "placing his faith...