Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depth and danger of campus disorder was brought home to Americans by the photographs a few weeks ago of rifle-carrying black militants at Cornell -an event that may have been the turning point after considerable national tolerance toward the radicals. Those who evolved the technique of confrontation into a frighteningly effective weapon are now themselves confronted-by angry government officials, the courts, an increasing number of resolute college administrators and even by exasperated fellow students. The crucial question is whether the reaction has come soon enough, and whether it will take the proper form. If it does not, higher...
Foreign policy questions were not paramount in De Gaulle's defeat. Obviously, though, not even the strongest successor will have the stature at home or abroad to perpetuate the haughty independence that was De Gaulle's personal panache. French policy on the Common Market and defense may change simply because it has to, because French leadership after De Gaulle probably will not be strong enough to make continued defiance of France's neighbors stick. Sooner or later, West Germany, which can already claim greater prosperity and a sounder currency than France, will assume more influence. Even divided...
Over the weekend, many a city dweller who stayed in town for the election took advantage of the sunny weather and left for his country home (la petite maison de campagne). There are now more than 2,000,000 people with second homes, and they pack France's narrow country roads with their Peugeot 404s and R.16s. Many others take off to visit relatives in the provinces, for France is a nation that is pulling its young out of the country and into the cities. More than 350,000 Bretons, mostly young, have migrated to Paris, and in their...
Poher soon joined the opposition, too. On April 17, his 60th birthday, he announced on a national television program that he rejected De Gaulle's propositions. After that, Poher crisscrossed France by auto, train and plane to argue against them in person. His home-folks approach on the hustings led newsmen to call him a French Harry Truman; it also helped to galvanize middle-class discontent into a decisive "no" vote. "Because one man resigns," Poher insisted in town after town, "France will not be consumed by chaos." He has been suggested as a centrist candidate for President because...
...Sweden, parade censors, outlawing banners "not in the interest of the working man," refused admittance to one reading "Crush Capitalism." However, they let another go by reading "Abolish Sweden." In divided Berlin, fog and rain kept most Berliners at home watching competing parades on TV. There were four in all, divided between West and East Berlin. In its typical out-of-step-with-the-times fashion, East Berlin held an old-fashioned military march-past. In Hamburg, Foreign Minister Willy Brandt was heckled by students and greeted with "Sieg Heil!" salutes...