Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suppose that Professor Aron used a Harvard platform to press the personal political views which he has put forth in France as a French citizen. In fact he did nothing of the sort; on the contrary he gave particular attention to the task of presenting clearly the attitudes of Frenchmen and Algerians with whom he himself does not agree...
Oddly enough, Frenchmen are supposed to be very emotional and quick to display their feelings; you certainly wouldn't say so from The Grand Maneuver. The acting was quite stolid and spiritless. M. Philippe, alternately confident and cowed, displayed a rather narrow range of emotions, and I wished at times that he would explode in anger or dissolve in passion, instead of just standing still and raising his eyebrows. Michele Morgan, the disillusioned milliner, was also rather static; it seemed that the director had instructed her to play a long-suffering, cynical woman, and that's about...
Truncated Puppet. Frenchmen peered hopefully through the glorious opacity of De Gaulle's prose to see whether his rocket promised to go into orbit-or to fizzle. So far, the signs were not encouraging...
...manifesto, published two months ago, affirmed the right of Frenchmen to refuse to cooperate in the prosecution of the six-year-old war in Algeria. Among the signers of the manifesto were Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Francois Sagan, and Florence Malraux, daughter of author Andre Malraux, who is Minister of Culture under de Gaulie...
Withdrawal from Black Africa was not nearly so difficult as withdrawal from Algeria seems likely to be. The Governments of the Fourth Republic, especially that of Mendes-France, had been able to let Morocco and Tunisia slip easily into independence. Yet one and one-half million Frenchmen, paying as much taxes as nine million Moslems, had not lived in Morocco or Tunisia for three generations. All that the liberations of Mendes-France accomplished for Algeria was to strengthen the resistance of the colons to autonomy for what they consider their country...