Word: grand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHARLES DE GAULLE had a genius for infuriating Americans on questions large and little. He frustrated grand designs for transatlantic harmony and military cooperation: he withdrew French forces from NATO, ordered U.S. troops out of France and built a costly independent nuclear deterrent, the force de frappe. Though a giant of his times, he could be petty on the smallest matter; three years ago, he refused to permit the annual memorial service for U.S. Army Sergeant Larry Kelly, fatally wounded in the liberation of Paris, to be held at the Invalides, the French national shrine that was its customary site...
...evening. Never before had a White House dinner been so dominated by Negroes, and never before had a U.S. artist of the masses been so honored. "I voted against Nixon three times since 1960," said one black musician from California, "but after tonight, he could run for Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan...
...moreover, pleasing fewer and fewer Frenchmen with his foreign policies. Always the product of his personal piques as well as his grand designs, those policies had grown increasingly alien or irrelevant to the world as viewed by ordinary Frenchmen. They often left the impression that the old man was getting erratic. Perhaps the most damaging stance involved the Arabs and Israelis. Though France has only 520,000 Jews, many more French were incensed when De Gaulle extended an earlier arms embargo to include spare-parts shipments to Israel...
...Cult and you become disparaging and intolerant of the Outsiders. And so Wolfe's Americans--both in his essays and his cartoons--make their assault on the Cult of their choice with a frightening determination, at once both grim and fierce. What it all amounts to is a grand nervous breakdown on a nationwide scale. It's to Tom Wolfe's credit, that he makes such madness attractive, if not downright respectable...
...That was too much," Hregan raved after Saturday's conquest. Words of wisdom came from Wilcox: "This has a high cosmic significance quotient." Gorby Grand said, "I'm glad...