Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...encouraging notes about France's discouraging situation is the fact that some Frenchmen themselves are getting worried about things. Thundered the new conservative weekly, L'Express, edited by able young Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber...
...Equilibrium is not the same as health . . . The Spanish economy is in equilibrium, like the Italian economy, like that of Abyssinia . . . Most Frenchmen eat, bathe and warm themselves fairly well in the winter. But little by little, faster and faster, one sees the conditions in which they live becoming medieval in relation to those countries which have managed to stay in the race. Just as Spain has fallen by the wayside, France, if she doesn't wake up, will become the Spain of the second half of the century...
...plainly more prosperous in the U.S. than their French counterparts: in Pittsburgh, the Cossets met Patrick N. O'Connell, a rolling-mill foe man with a wife and eight children, who owns a station wagon, a TV set, his own home, gets no such "family allotment" as fecund Frenchmen get from a grateful government...
...Star Republic's flag still flying outside public schools alongside the Stars & Stripes, the French embassy still standing at the old Lone Star capital of Austin. They were even more startled by some of the tall tales Texans told until they realized that it was just gasconnade (as Frenchmen call the braggadocio of their own "Texans" of Gascony). In Crystal City, Texas, the world's self-styled spinach capital, the Gossets found a statue of Popeye in the public square...
...Frenchmen who still pictured the South as a Scarlett O'Hara land of cotton plantations and Negro mammies were put wise: "To tell the truth, we did not see much cotton in the South. What we saw was oil, natural gas, helium, steel, magnesium, atomic energy and chemical plants." The Gossets were impressed with the advance of Negro education; they called all-Negro Howard University (in Washington, D.C.) "more modern than the average European university." To the French reporters, the Vieux Carre of French New Orleans was a fake-with its "pretentious airs of romanticism," its "tourist traps...