Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point in history, all men belonged to tribes,*and most of them resisted efforts to integrate them into nation-states. The Scots were tribal until well into the 18th century, and the Welsh partly so. Even the modern West is not wholly free of tribalism, as witness Canada's French-speaking separatists and the bitter divisions between Walloons and Flemings in Belgium...
...that stressed personal competition, and are thus born overachievers. In contrast, a Fang finds individual excellence so reprehensible that the talented are treated as outsiders or even outlaws. Yoruba see nothing wrong with saving money, while the Tiv see worthwhile wealth only in the number of women they acquire. French Sociologist Jacques Binet found the forest people of Gabon "afraid of wealth: the possession of money was sinful to them...
...lifelong friend, Ker-Xavier Roussel. Both were contributors to the mighty explosion that was impressionism, but their visual worlds were quite different. Vuillard was essentially a realist, a chronicler of bourgeois life. Roussel, with his nymphs and gods, was a dreamer, trying to transplant classical Greece into the French landscape...
...complains Dr. Hiawatha Harris, a black Los Angeles psychiatrist. He cites a young Negro candidate who went through two-thirds of the questions before he came to a subject that he knew anything about. That was science. The other questions were cultural, covering (among other things) yachting jargon and French expressionist painting. "Medical schools have been judging black applicants on an equal basis with whites in an effort to be fair," says Harris, "but we are going to have to recognize differences because black students have not come up in the same cultural environment...
...still on the payroll but restricted to covering baseball. Howard K. Smith has been forcibly retired, and Eric Sevareid has been rusticated to the local sta tion in Keokuk. In their place are unknown third-stringers, providing bland, cursory newscasts culled from the wire services. Translated from the French, that is the situation U.S. televiewers would face this week...