Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prisoners jailed during the Bokassa reign, there was resentment when he reappointed many members of Bokassa's Cabinet. At the same time, supporters of former Prime Minister Ange Patasse, a prominent opposition figure who had quit the Bokassa regime in 1978 in protest over its atrocities, staged anti-French demonstrations when his departure from Paris was held up by technicalities. At week's end Patasse castigated Dacko as an accomplice of Bokassa and demanded he resign. Part of it, no doubt, was pique that Dacko got there first; reportedly, Patasse had been plotting a coup...
...while, the Star weathered that exodus well. But during the strike, circulation at the newly lively Gazette soared to roughly what the Star's had been before the dispute. By the time the Star resumed publication, its readership had plummeted to the Gazette's old level. (The French-language La Presse [circ. 175,000] also fattened from the strike.) Said Star Publisher Art Wood after last week's announcement: "The simple truth is that Montreal could no longer support two independent English-language dailies like the Star and the Gazette, and the people of Montreal chose...
...this is Friday, that must be the touring Cleveland Orchestra that Lorin Maazel, 49, is conducting at London's Royal Festival Hall. Maazel, who is fluent in English, French and German, also works with the French Orchestre National and has agreed as well to direct and conduct at Vienna's hallowed State Opera. When he begins his pit stops there in 1982, Maazel will face the unusually intense musical politics that have made Vienna the bane of conductors. So great is the municipal love of music that even the orchestra members, drawn from the Vienna Philharmonic...
...Haig and I could walk. He pulled over at a spot where the trees lining the road suddenly opened up to reveal a small lake. Picnickers were spreading out their food on checkered tablecloths; couples were lying under the trees. The sky had the mellow blue of the early French autumn. And none of these Parisians paid the slightest attention to this odd group of self-absorbed Americans who were walking along the narrow footpaths lined by tall grass...
...pushed against the grindstone of congressional pressures" to end the war on almost any terms. In this situation, an unprecedented four-day secret session was convened on Sunday morning, Oct. 8. The critical meeting was held in a house in suburban Gif-sur-Yvette, once owned by the French artist Fernand Léger and still adorned with his Cubist paintings and tapestries. Around noon, after Kissinger had laid out the essentially unchanged U.S. position, the North Vietnamese requested a break until four that afternoon...