Word: frenchmens
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Antoine Pinay has shaved off the little mustache and discarded the round hat with upturned brim that were once his trademarks as Premier of the Fourth Republic. But his popularity with Frenchmen remains second only to that of De Gaulle himself. Last week a dele gation representing three center parties of France presented itself in Pinay's handsome apartment overlooking the Bois de Boulogne in Paris to put a question. Would Pinay stand for President in the French elections next...
...last laugh. "Personal power?" he asked at conference's end, challenging critics who charge that he rules singlehandedly. Why, he said, he was constantly in touch from the top of the government right down to the grass roots, having seen "with his own eyes at least 15 million Frenchmen" in the past seven years. And besides, great men are sometimes too busy for everyday commingling. "Whoever believed," said General de Gaulle, that General de Gaulle, "once called to the helm, would content himself with inaugurating chrysanthemum shows...
...inflation and devaluation, many French men have developed a peasantlike distrust of stocks, bonds or paper money−and an earthy passion for material goods. These fears and desires are being profitably exploited by two French businessmen who are giving their country men something as good as gold (which Frenchmen still hoard to the extent of $5 billion) to sink their savings into. The entrepreneurs' basic idea: buy your own railroad...
Bayreuth's soul searchers today are 60% non-German, of whom a large proportion are wealthy Jews and Frenchmen, the two groups Wagner professedly cared for least, but who now happily pay a top price of $20 per night. But even they still have to sit on the hard, wicker-backed chairs installed by Richard Wagner. Says Wieland: "Grandfather didn't intend his audience to have fun. The uncomfortable seats stimulate the audience to concentrate, listen and experience greatness...
...France, Christ is spoken of as having the same "nature" as God the Father, rather than what the Latin says-of the same "substance." Gilson argues that the change of wording seriously distorts the doctrinal point made by the Creed. There are other complaints about the translation. Many conservative Frenchmen think it undignified to address God with the intimate tu rather than the more formal vous, and wonder why the translators couldn't find a better word for Christ's redemption than the commercial term rachat (rebuying...