Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parisians let the paint peel from their houses, put, their Picassos in the attic, and claimed that their pedigreed poodles were used exclusively as watchdogs, which are taxexempt. (Le Fisc finally abandoned its hit-and-mistress methods this year.) When the inspectors started demanding taxpayers' financial records, artful Frenchmen from plumbers to landlords retaliated by insisting on cash for their services; the most fashionable doctor in Paris today would sooner vote for socialized medicine than accept a patient's check...
...with choral music and songs than with instrumental music. His lyrical sensitivity to poetry led his songs into fragile moods that passed subtly from laughter into grief. "J'aime la voix humaine," he would say. and no composer of the century knew better how to write for it; Frenchmen now call him their Schubert, their Puccini. From the Mouvements Perpétuels he wrote at 19, through his days with the anti-impressionist Groupe des Six, on through all the rest of his career, he never abandoned his own highly idiomatic voice: Ravel envied him for knowing...
...supply and communication with Europe were virtually cut off. His army was steadily reduced by sieges of sickness (most notably, ophthalmia and bubonic plague), by Bedouin raids, and by the almost incessant warfare the French were forced to wage to keep their sprawling colony subdued. Some 27,000 Frenchmen died in Egypt, and after a time even victories became too costly. Napoleon pushed into Syria with 13,000 men, was stalemated by the Turks at Acre, and limped back to Cairo with only half his army. In the second battle of Abukir, the French slaughtered 9,000 Turks, but suffered...
...strike was not due totally, as some American news magazines have implied, to de Gaulle's belligerence. Coal as a source of energy is on its way out in France, as it is in the United States. While many Frenchmen were stirred by the discipline and courage the miners showed--especially during the last two weeks of the strike, when there was very little for them to eat--there is nevertheless widespread understanding that coal must give way to gas as a source of energy if the French economy is to continue to expand. De Gaulle may say this...
...talks too much. With the kidnaping of ex-Colonel Antoine Argoud in Munich five weeks ago, and the virtual removal from active operations of Jacques Soustelle, the S.A.O.'s political boss, France's government claims that the movement that once struck terror in the hearts of Frenchmen has just about fallen apart. Hounded by the 61,000-man police force of Interior Minister Roger Frey, the S.A.O. is no longer able to maintain commando units in each of France's nine military districts, as it once did. Today, top officials claim, there are probably no more than...