Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fifth Republic as a consequence of recent events; to be replaced by the more familiar, if less exalted, language of partisan politics. De Gaulle's "French nation," united behind its leader and scorning the divisive and dilatory representative mechanism, has disappeared, to be replaced by the more familiar atomistic Frenchman, who does not prize unity above all things, nor value efficiency most highly. The vote in Sunday's referendum was, in fact, a vote against government by referendum...
...growing unity of the nations around the North Atlantic must eventually include their schools. It is commonplace for a Frenchman to work making tires in Birmingham; the irony is that if his children go to school in Britain, they ruin their chances of entering French universities. Needed: commonly held standards that will permit secondary schools in any part of Europe to feed the universities of any other part. This fall, in a grand old castle in Wales, a school opened to work toward this goal by providing standards...
FROM radios and television sets throughout France last week came the hoarse, oracular voice that every Frenchman tries hopelessly to imitate. It belonged to Charles de Gaulle, who in a nationwide address announced his plans for a strengthened presidential system by which his successor would be elected directly by the people (TIME, Sept. 21). Though De Gaulle's proposal would short-circuit the constitution and has already enraged politicians of all parties, his grandiloquent dialogue between "you Frenchmen and Frenchwomen and my self" only heightened the curious blend of awe, irritation and amusement with which most Frenchmen today regard...
...French. On another occasion, De Gaulle despaired aloud: "How can you govern a country with 246 varieties of cheese?" The French, he complains, "think only about stuffing themselves and living better," adding: "This is hardly a national purpose." On the other hand, he shrugs: "Every Frenchman wants to have one or two special privileges. That's his way of showing his passion for equality...
...sense of history (see box). And at 71, he is a man of amazing diligence. Said one admiring German official: "The key to De Gaulle is evident in his speeches in German. He doesn't speak it really well, but he has a perfectly aspirated //. For a Frenchman, that's the toughest letter of all. De Gaulle must have concentrated on it and systematically practiced it until he got it. It's that power of will that's so characteristic. And you can be sure that he will keep pressing his idea of Franco-German friendship...