Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Couve also had a few things to say publicly about the general's plans. De Gaulle realized, reported Couve, that any political meddling on his part "would make it difficult for those who succeeded him." Accordingly, he has "marked his desire to abstain from any future intervention in French political life." Considering the rebuff that voters had just handed to one of his heirs, that is probably a shrewd judgment on De Gaulle's part...
...mass-produced origin, yet sometimes possessed the ease and livability of an earlier, less industrial age. While the style of the day was mechanical, some of its most gifted designers, particularly in the 1920s, were craftsmen who produced signed, custom-designed work for a luxury market. Many were French: Silversmith Jean Puiforcat, Furniture Designer Jacques Ruhlmann, Glassmakers Rene Lalique and Maurice Marinot. In the U.S., Henry Dreyfuss and Norman Bel Geddes designed costume jewelry, radio consoles and jukeboxes...
...national franchise for Pepsi-Cola and is one of the largest makers of chocolate and other candy in France. Annual sales are $204 million. But when Perrier tried to expand its gastronomic conglomerate by growing big in the dairy industry, the ensuing spectacle resembled the script for a French farce...
Test Against Experience. Berle tests his five laws mainly against American experience. The institutions through which power works, he observes, have a transient life of their own-like the French bureaucracy, which America's administrative system more and more resembles. Yet institutions are less significant, ultimately, than the system of agreed-upon ideas to which the power wielders must appeal. Growing doubt about the philosophical consensus behind American democracy, says Berle, is "the fundamental problem in America today...
Part of their courtship was spent aboard a yacht on Chesapeake Bay, so the Pritchards decide to recapture the essence of their romance by taking a three-month vacation on Cap Ferrat on the French Mediterranean. There, surrounded by a group of sybaritic international degenerates, Michael has an intense sexual bout with an English actress and, wittingly or unwittingly, hires an Italian gigolo to teach Margaret French and other things. What they both learn is what destroys them...