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Word: frenchman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alec Guinness, of all people, will reach Cambridge at the proper moment, very possibly to hear his name read out in the Tercentenary Theatre. Le Corbusier and Buckminster Fuller '17 may be there too, the Frenchman to see his building, the Dymaxionist for his 45th Reunion. The composer Elliot Carter '30 ought to have a degree by now; so perhaps should Erich Leinsdorf, the BSO's new conductor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Truman, Say the Guesses, In Annual Degree Sweepstakes | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

...morning shape-up and wounding another no, including many youngsters brought along on the theory that the S.A.O. would spare Moslems accompanied by children. European dockers had been tipped off beforehand and had kept out of sight. But enraged Moslems scrambling from the scene grabbed the first Frenchman they saw driving by, a hapless Sahara oil worker on leave, and cut his throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: Object: Destruction | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

Many of the tests that followed are just vaguely familiar names now, but they loom large in the memories of the weary scientists, including Ogle, who sweated them out. There was Ranger at Frenchman Flat near Las Vegas, Greenhouse at Eniwetok, Buster-Jangle and Tumbler-Snapper. With Ivy in November 1952, the first hydrogen bomb was exploded, wiping out the tiny island of Elugelab, and digging a crater a mile long and 175 ft. deep in the ocean's floor, near Eniwetok. During Castle, near Bikini in the spring of 1954, miscalculations on power and meteorology caused radioactive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Atom: For Survival's Sake | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...FRENCHMEN. "We have a tendency to place ourselves as absolute criteria in the center of the universe and see anyone else as a departure from the normal. But, what is a Frenchman? A being with an ingrained sense of discomfort, mocking individualism, contemptuous, revolting against any incorporation into the mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Another Victor Hugo? | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

Rightly or wrongly, the transplanted whites from Algeria are identified with the plastic bombings and brutal murders of the S.A.O. The average Frenchman also dislikes them on personal grounds. The Algerian accent, which combines a throaty Arab intonation with a nasal drawl, falls unpleasantly on French ears. The pieds-noirs are considered pushy, noisy, boastful and vulgar. A Nice restaurateur says: "You cannot spend ten minutes with them before the subject of their sexual prowess comes up. Their language and gestures are so raw that it's not surprising that no one, from high society to workers, invites pieds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Beggars in Neckties | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

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