Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Russian tanks rumbled in, that hope evaporated. For the first time since its founding in 1920, the French Communist Party denounced the Soviet line. "The French Party expresses its surprise and reprobation," bannered L'Humanité, the Paris Communist paper. The Italian Communist Party, which won more than a quarter of the votes in the last national elections, expressed "grave dissent" with the Russians. In fact, every major Communist party in Western Europe turned its back on Moscow. That may turn out to be a very wise move. If they retain their independence, the Communist parties...
...artillery support. At week's end, the Biafrans were dug in near two vital crossroads, while the Nigerians were repairing the bridge in order to move across their heavy firepower. Ojukwu's hopes rested on obtaining new supplies: he claimed to have signed an agreement with a French firm for immediate shipments of guns and ammunition...
...French comedian. He inherited both these artistic strains; when father painted portraits, son slyly drew caricatures of his unsuspecting sitters. Off to Paris at 20, Gerard, who by now had adopted the name of Grandville, was soon invited to contribute to a new satirical magazine. By the time his book Metamorphoses of the Day was published in 1828, Grandville's sketches, according to Thackeray, "brightened many a little room in the Pays Latin," and his studio had become a gathering place where Dumas, Balzac and Daumier gathered to talk and drink, while Grandville idly sketched caricatures as the conversation...
...occasion for the Pope's visit -the 39th International Eucharistic Congress-was oddly anachronistic in a day when a large and militant part of the Roman Catholic Church is turning away from pomp and tradition. The Eucharistic Congress, conceived in the late 19th century by a devout French grande dame, Marie Marthe Tamisier, is a liturgical spectacular that reaffirms the otherworldly glories of the faith. The event particularly venerates the Eucharist, the ritual in which, according to traditional Catholic doctrine, bread and wine are transubstantiated into the body and blood of Christ. With its emphasis on ceremony and doctrine...
Says an exasperated official of the Bonn Ministry of Agriculture: "The only way to solve the problem is to open a hunting season on cows." The European farm surpluses will keep rising because, as French Minister of Agriculture Robert Boulin puts it, "we are entering into an era of general overproduction." There has been conversation about giving away food surpluses to needy countries. Still, all this has been more talk than action. Meanwhile, the problem of agricultural surpluses is one of the main subjects to be discussed at a Common Market meeting next month...