Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...structure," says one official of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "Paul is willing to modernize. But not on matters of faith and morals." Theologically, the Pope is not a progressive thinker. He has repeatedly referred to himself as a student of Jacques Maritain, the gentle French philosopher whose "integral humanism" was a sensitive rethinking of the insights of Thomas Aquinas. Maritain was a fresh and life-giving force within Catholicism during the '30s and '40s, most notably in his defense of political democracy against the charms of fascism (Paul, in his years of service...
...stately conductor earned the admiration of his musicians for his easy, gracious manners; Bostonians responded to his sense of drama and his flair for improvisation. A chronic under-rehearser who rarely directed any piece the same way twice, Munch was happiest with the music of the 19th century French Romantics, to which he brought a poetic vibrance of color and texture. Last year French Cultural Minister André Malraux hired him out of retirement to lead the newly formed Orchestre de Paris, and though his health was failing, Munch was determined to be on the podium for the orchestra...
...French film makers frequently treat sex as a farce, and Swedes as a midnight-sun ritual. But for the Germans-ah, the Germans-it seems to be a subject to be explained...
...Queensland Alumina Ltd. operation, for instance, Australian ownership is less than 1%; the remainder is held by British, Canadian, U.S. and French companies in consortium. Mount Goldsworthy Mining Associates, which ships 4,000,000 tons of iron ore to Japan annually, is 8% Australian and 92% British and American. The only large project in which Australians hold a majority interest, Gorton was told, is the Mount Newman iron mines, where their share...
...disposing of all that. "I hate mine.") What he offers instead is an odd, episodic mixture of action and reflection, frequently obfuscated by Malraux's fondness for flights of impenetrable Gallic rhetoric. The book includes part of an early novel, some narrative accounts of his adventures in the French Resistance and elsewhere, and long replays of longer interviews with Mao Tse-tung and Nehru, both of whom he visited in 1965 not only as a former fellow revolutionary but as an informal emissary from De Gaulle...