Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was a time a few years ago when the only U.S. sculpture well known abroad was the bric-a-brac-cluttered black boxes of Louise Nevelson and the swinging mobiles of Alexander Calder. And even Calder hardly counted, since most Frenchmen consider him French anyway (he has a second studio in Saché). But last week more than 13 tons of the New World descended upon Paris in the largest exhibition of American sculpture ever shown in Europe. The site, of all places, was the Rodin Museum, and the impact nothing short of formidable...
...Some Frenchmen thought the English behavior not curious but downright sinister. Muttered one government official: "You can't exclude the possibility of some arrière pensée [ulterior motives]." Reported Le Monde: "The hidden intentions of the British can easily be guessed at. This was a fine opportunity to remind Europe of a period when France was the one who wouldn't play ring-around-the-rosy. The experts on perfidy are whispering that this was a tit-for-tat for a certain press conference [by De Gaulle in 1963] that closed the door...
RAVEL: DAPHNIS AND CHLOË, SUITE NO. 2, and ROUSSEL: BACCHUS AND ARIADNE, SUITE NO. 2 (RCA Victor). For his first recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, new Conductor Jean Martinon chose flashy and familiar works-two Dionysian ballets by fellow Frenchmen. Orchestra and conductor show up well, from the airy pianissimos that signal the break of day in the Ravel to the wildly pounding bacchanalia that climax the Roussel...
...Grand Casino, while serious Monégasque students of chance clang away at the one-armed bandits lined up across the street from the elegant Hotel de Paris. In France, the postwar development of le tierce, a combination racing bet and lottery, which attracts 3,000,000 Frenchmen every Sunday, has made horse-track betting the country's fifth-largest industry. And in Britain, bookies, football pools and bingo, together with the legalization in 1960 of private table
...have solved your other problems and can play it." British Liberal Party Leader Jo Grimond recently rose in Parliament to criticize President Johnson for not being "deeply interested in Europe." In Paris, a poll taken by the Institut Francais d'Opinion Publique to determine the world figure whom Frenchmen regard as the greatest menace to world peace, Lyndon Johnson ran a close second (30% to 32%) to Red China's Mao Tse-tung...