Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frantic Frenchmen. The Met's greatest stroke was its 1961 auction purchase of Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer; armed with backing from Redmond's board, Rorimer outbid the well-heeled Cleveland Museum with the highest known price ever paid for an art object, $2,300,000. But that deal involved only money, of which the Met has access to loads ($104 million-plus in assets, exclusive of its art riches); other triumphs are more intriguing. Four years ago, the Met stirred outrage in the Gaullist Parliament by quietly acquiring, for possibly...
...only have been dredged by a greatly gifted hand. Yet Cole Porter's Tale of the Oyster has never been published. Nor, until now, has it ever been recorded. It is only remembered by those Broadway theatergoers who, in 1929, happened to see Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen...
...Frenchmen, though they are never likely to lose their skepticism, believed De Gaulle last week when he said: "The past must certainly never be repeated. Whatever the conditions under which our future will be unveiled, in a world still filled with perils let us be sure from this moment on that we have the elementary guarantees of a firm government, a modern defense and a united nation." For the length of his rule at least, the country has come close to achieving these guarantees and perhaps to satisfying De Gaulle's own axiom: "France cannot be France without greatness...
President de Gaulle may seek to make his current interest in Southeast Asia appear Olympian, but the interest that many Frenchmen have in the area is down to earth-and economic. Though forced to leave the area as a major power a decade ago, France still holds at least a $375 million investment in her former Indo-Chinese empire, more than any other nation. The total may not seem great in the industrialized West, but in a backward region it constitutes a substantial influence...
...rubber plantations are French owned, and their output of 70,000 tons a year (France buys more than half) constitutes 70% of the country's exports. The plantations often pay "taxes" to the Viet Cong guerrillas lest they damage property and kidnap foremen. Today, the 5,000 Metropolitan Frenchmen in South Viet Nam walk softly. "We feel that we should bloom quietly, like violets," says one. Ironically, the French violets are being protected by the chief target of De Gaulle's criticism, the U.S., as it struggles to save the country from Communism...