Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helped cause. Yet it has become once again the dominant political emotion in Europe. No one has rekindled "la gloire" more assiduously than Charles de Gaulle. When Sampson interviewed Franz Josef Strauss, West Germany's Finance Minister mocked De Gaulle the diplomat as "a cross between Joan of Arc and a political cosmonaut." Yet, as Sampson notes, De Gaulle has "taken full advantage of the glamour of nationalism" as well as the allure of anti-Americanism. For his own lifetime, at least, he has blocked the dream of fellow Frenchman Jean Monnet for a United States of Europe...
...solo flight and was well on his way to earning his pilot's license. ∙∙∙ The pews in the chapel of St. Luke's Church in McLean, Va., were filled with relatives and friends. Aunt Jackie had flown from New York. Uncle Ted and Aunt Joan were there. So were the Charles Percys, George McGoverns, Robert McNamaras and Mike Mansfields. But the young lady who was the focus of attention had missed her nap; she ignored the distinguished company and gave vent to lusty cries until she was soothed by her mother and her new godparents...
...ponderous or solemn," Tange says, "but always as they should be: great fun to watch." Many others obviously agree. For their pavilion at the world's fair, Japan's gas companies have commissioned Shingu to create indoor fountains that will frame a huge new ceramic fresco by Joan...
...Tonight's guest hosts, McMahon, a 6-ft. 3¾-in. 215-pounder with the face of a friendly brown bear, is "the Rock of Gibraltar" (Joan Rivers), or "my security blanket" (Newhart). Once, when Newhart and Guest Bobby Morse were lulling the audience to sleep with reminiscences, McMahon piped: "Gee, have you two ever thought about putting a book of these stories out?" Says Newhart: "The relief was marvelous. Bobby and I would have kept going all night if Ed hadn't saved us." Jerry Lewis tried to break Ed up during commercials and even kept...
Sapone says that a few of his painter-customers "dress like bourgeois gentlemen" and concedes that he has trouble satisfying them. Joan Miró never did accept his suggestions for a suit, and Jacques Villon confided: "Sapone, I'm really too old for you to dress me." As Picasso told him: "Your suits are like my paintings. In the beginning people found them strange and extravagant. Now they admire them...