Word: gauls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pursued by a camera that emphasizes the gritty black-and-whites of his murderous milieu. Admittedly hooked on oldtime U.S. gangster movies, Melville manages to make Paris look like the back lot at Warner Brothers. Doulos, in consequence, seldom seems more than an ambitious hybrid, a gangland epic with Gaul...
Calling for drastic fines against Américanolatres (America worshipers), Etiemble estimates that Frenchmen soft on English have allowed 5,000 common Anglicisms (and 30,000 technical ones) to divide Gaul. The august French Academy is so alarmed that it has decided to "unleash an offensive in favor of the defense of the French language." Mounting the barricades, the academy's dictionary commission will prepare a blacklist of "foreign" words that are impropres à la langue...
...moment, Whatmough is working on several projects. He is preparing a grammar of the dialects of ancient Gaul to accompany his monumental work, Dialects of Ancient Gaul(1949), and he is also working on his autobiography (which, he insists, will not be published during his lifetime). In addition he is trying to "train" himself for retirement to a quiet routine at home with his wife. All his life, Whatmough has gotten up no later than four in the morning; he claims he does his best work at that time of day. "Now, I try never to get up before four...
...that any of these measures will halt the downtrend. The problem, says he, is neither TV, nor slanted reporting, nor a glut of papers, but the fact that Charles de Gaulle has hobbled political parties. "Gaullist France is not interested in national affairs," said Servan-Schreiber, a longtime anti-Gaul-list, who might have a telling point here. "People know that De Gaulle makes his own decisions, and no one else in the country has anything to say about them. There is no debate. There is no need to get the news...
...hundred shots he will probably begin to giggle more or less continuously, even though he knows he will be sorry in the morning. Gabin is a merry old soak. He is also the grand old man of French films. He began his career as the Clark Gable of Gaul; he is ending it as Wallace Beery in a beret...