Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Writer-Director Claude Berri tells the simple tale of the love of a small Jewish boy and an old anti-Semitic Frenchman without jerking a tear, hoking a climax, or ringing in the alarums that a World War II setting has ready at hand...
...sports, and asked: "I hear that half the skiers on the French team don't live up to our definition of amateurism. Is that true?" Replied Crespin: "You have been misinformed, Monsieur. No one on the French ski team lives up to your definition." Brundage thought the Frenchman was joking...
...this Olympic year, with everyone giving it an extra push, that triple first ranking puts triple pressure on Jean-Claude. In the season's first big race at Val d'Isère, Killy came in fourth behind Austria's Gerhard Nenning, another Frenchman and another Austrian. In the second big meet at Hindelang, he placed second in the two slaloms, both of which were won by Switzerland's unheralded Edmund Bruggmann. At après-ski parties, the buzz began: was something wrong with Killy? The answer from the French: don't be silly...
...Americain [It is argued] that the Americans are buying Europe with their balance of payments deficit; that the technological gap and the brain drain together represent a new form of imperialism; that all this comes from the export of Mr. Galbraith's modern industrial state. A brilliant Frenchman, M. Servan-Schreiber, recently published a book about all this which he calls Le Deéuú Americain [The American Challenge; TIME, Nov. 24]. He rejects any protectionist or negative reply by Europe to this challenge. He recognizes that the challenge is inescapable...
...eminent visiting Frenchman was being shown through the Art Institute of Chicago by its then president, Chauncey McCormick, when he asked in astonishment: "How can you possibly afford all these marvelous impressionist pictures?" The proud response was: "We do not buy them; we inherit them from our grandmothers...