Word: joie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paris suburb of La Courneuve-a uniquely Gallic blend of gourmet food, Marxist rhetoric and midway attractions. Nearly 9,300 new members were signed up during the two-day Red fete, which was attended by 1.5 million people. Boasted one party recruiter: "Ours is a Communism with joie de vivre...
...optimism was premature. By week's end fete had turned into fiasco and joie into tristesse for the Communists. A long-awaited summit meeting of Socialist, Communist and Radical Party leaders was abruptly halted by a strident, embarrassingly public dispute over the common program-the parties' joint campaign platform for the March 1978 elections...
Indeed, the once serious world of haute couture, seemingly oblivious to the voices that have prophesied its doom, sparkles with youth and joie devivre. This in spite of the fact that most of the designers are taking their inspiration from bygone eras and remote cultures. But if the collections last week are any indication, a remembrance of fashions and times past, translated into the present with bravura, can itself make history -or at least contemporary magic...
...cafe; five restaurants. Best: Maxim's. Four bars, open 24 hr. Arcade of tax-free boutiques on transit floor offers every brand of French perfume (20% off), watches, scarves, jewelry, liquor, luggage, pâté, etc. Barbershop and beauty salon. First-aid station. Overall: functional but sans joie de vivre...
...this week, however, Americans will be celebrating the fact of independence and not the reasons for it. After the public reading of the Declaration.Philadelphians sounded their church bells all day and night. Battalions marched to the State House yard. Muskets cracked a feu de joie. Early this week the news had traveled only as far as New York and Dover, Delaware; it will probably not reach Georgia before August. In Dover, the Committee of Safety presided over a ceremonial burning of a portrait of George III. Said the committee's president: "Thus we destroy even the shadow of that King...