Word: froid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...given Vita a chance to run around in breeches. Harold was away, Violet appeared in red velvet. "I hadn't dreamt of such an art of love," Vita recollects. Soon the two women were running off to France together?over and over. In the circumstance, Harold carried British sang-froid and tolerance to laughable extremes. From Versailles, where he was busy working on the treaty, he used to cable money with an "Enjoy yourself." He made quips about "wild oats." In 1919 Vita wrote to him, "I don't think you have taken the thing seriously . . . I am absolutely terrified...
...predecessor, Trash, has no stellar Holly Woodlawn performance to hide this fact from us. Somewhat cruel to the audience, yes--Heat has an icy cool sense of moral superiority underlying it, as it is constantly beating us over the heads with caricatures of ourselves while maintaining its own sang froid, and we should resent a movie that makes us bleed without bleeding itself...
...A.A.A.S.'s quaint electoral protocol again was on his side; he would first have to serve out a year as president-elect, he noted, before he actually assumed the presidency in 1972. By that time, the dispute over the radiation standards might be settled. Seaborg's sang-froid was characteristic. A tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and shambling figure, he has become something of a legend in Washington for his ability to duck controversy. During the intense debate over whether the U.S. should build an H-bomb, he managed to retain the friendship of both Robert Oppenheimer...
When De Gaulle was out of power, he liked to describe the continual shifts of Ministers in the Fourth Republic's Cabinets by saying, "Chose, machin, chouette [thingamabob, thingamajig, whosit] are being replaced by chouette, machin, chose." He often referred to members of the National Assembly as pisse froid or pisse vinaigre. In private, he often called France "vacharde"-inert or uninspired. The fact was that France offered De Gaulle too limited a scope and power base. Try as he might, he could not change the basic reality that France simply lacked the specific gravity to offset the force...