Word: grand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elegant Salle des Fêtes, where other officials and guests had assembled. A chamber ensemble that had been playing Lully's Les Mousquetaires du Roy fell silent. The president of the Constitutional Council, which oversees elections, stepped forward to proclaim Pompidou as President. Then the grand chancellor of the Legion of Honor slipped around Pompidou's neck the heavy chain of a grand master of the order, symbolic of the Presidency...
...Charles de Gaulle, still keeping his holiday exile in Ireland, far from the men jostling for his place, such minor adjustments to his grand designs must not have seemed too unexpected or unpalatable. But in one throwaway line at the end of the campaign, Georges Pompidou surely caused the old general to bristle with anger and dismay. It was an observation that exposed as perhaps nothing else could the gap between De Gaulle's view of France and the world and that of Pompidou-and between the France of De Gaulle and that of post-De Gaulle. In examining...
...simply does not drop in out of the blue and demand an audience with a famous opera star-especially if the opera star is Maria Callas. The grand diva was in Uchisar, Turkey, for the filming of her first movie, Medea, and Turkish Information Minister Nihat Kursat made a special trip to pay his respects. Kursat walked into the lobby of her hotel, sent a message to Callas announcing his arrival, and quickly received a reply: "I am tired and I don't want to talk to you." Thoroughly humiliated, Kursat flew back to Ankara, where he assured reporters...
...Grand Rapids at the height of the summer season. So they threw a splashy prenuptial bash at Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel to make sure the clan got its chance to toast the prospective bride and groom. There was Joan Kennedy in a black minishift and the George Plimptons chatting with Arthur Schlesinger Jr. All told, more than 200 guests dropped in to congratulate the lovestruck couple. Said the future Mrs. Sorensen: "We thought we ought to do something for our East Coast friends...
...story still begins as generically as any Chandler. A detective is engaged to track a missing husband. The wife is alcoholic, inscrutable and intriguing. Armed with few clues and a feeling that he is embarked on a useless yet necessary quest, the detective proceeds to make a grand detour of the local underworld scene. What started out as a whodunit winds up as a "Who-am-I?" Separated from his home, and a victim of a sense of alienation to boot, the detective begins to identify with the missing husband and yearn for his own wife, to the point...