Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrenching industrial changes are stirring worker protest. Last week, their jobs in jeopardy, West German steelworkers were threatening to strike to back up their demands for shorter hours. Meanwhile, the Belgian government took over a large part of that country's steel industry. In September, French steelworkers called a one-day strike against a government plan to rescue their industry from bankruptcy by, among other means, eliminating up to 30,000 jobs over the next five years. Textile workers in France's Vosges region earlier staged an angry march through factory towns to protest the downfall of the once mighty...
...nondollar investments. Then Jimmy Carter announced his Nov. 1 save-the-dollar program of price-bolstering purchases and high interest rates, and the reassured Saudis rushed to help out. In Paris, their buying of dollars is credited with helping raise the greenback's price from less than 4 French francs to about...
...live with Wagner, and here the diary begins. She saw it as a way of explaining to her children how a Godfearing woman like herself could have done such a thing. (Actually, an example was close at hand: Cosima was the illegitimate child of Franz Lizst and a married French countess.) But as years passed, the pages of Tagebuch became a record of her life with Wagner. When he died in 1883 she laid it aside for good, though she lived until 1930. Publication has been delayed by family squabbling and resultant legal complications...
...disagreeable. Both Wagners were virulent anti-Semites, occasionally to the point of black comedy. Lamenting, as he often did, the decline of morality and religion, Wagner concluded, "The old Jewish God always ruins the whole thing." Roman Catholics stood little higher in their estimation and they loathed the French too. During the Franco-Prussian War, they summed things up by saying that France "has been undermined by the spirit of the Jesuits...
Hashish, according to a character in The Stiff Upper Lip, "is the biggest growth product in France." A runner-up might be basketball, le basket, which the French have discovered with delight and ineptitude. As Private Detective B.F. (for Benjamin Franklin) Cage soon finds out in his third adventure sponsored by Peter Israel, the two trades can be slimily and bloodily involved...