Word: les
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Right Ahead." For the first time in five months, the general had come out of the rural isolation of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises (pop. 312) to exhort his withering but still formidable army into renewed assaults on the French government and its policies. For France's most powerful ally, he had recrimination: "The U.S. wishes to hold in check the Soviet block-but not engage its own troops . . .They sent money and material to Indo-China-but left the French to do the fighting. They are ready to arm any country to fight the Russians-and if necessary command...
Pianist Backhaus, square-jawed and bulky, played five sonatas by Beethoven with the virility and technique of a man half his age. He began with the tried & true Pathétique, swirled through the Tempest, rippled through Les Adieux, produced a playful Opus 79 and summed everything up with a lofty performance of Opus III. "One of the greatest evenings ... of Beethoven's piano music [in a quarter century]," raved the New York Times's Olin Downes. "Mr. Backhaus was young with Beethoven...
...wrote Blaise Pascal, "I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who dreamt every night that he was a workman." Borrowing plots from great philosophers is a quick way to get out of the movie business, but this time the borrower is René Clair (Sous les Toits de Paris, Le Million), a man as skillful with pictures as Pascal was with ideas. The result is a wonderfully natty little reductio ad absurdum-"all bird," as one observer put it, "and no stuffing...
Boarding the naval transport Les Eclaireurs one day last month, Argentine Minister of Marine Anibal O. Olivieri slipped out of the port of Bahia Blanca, bound for a quiet inspection of his country's Antarctic bases. The Buenos Aires em bassy of Great Britain, which has long claimed the area in which the Argentines have been setting up bases, was not caught napping. Les Eclaireurs was soon joined by Her Majesty's frigate St. Austell Bay, off Deception Island, 600 miles south of Cape Horn. Signaled St. Austell Bay to Les Eclaireurs'. "To the Argentine Naval Minister...
...Later Les Eclaireurs upped anchor; so did St. Austell Bay. Together the ships proceeded toward Hope Bay. There, under the watchful attention of the British frigate, Admiral Olivieri went ashore to open a new Argentine military base. With the base formally established, he unveiled a bust of the late Eva Peron presented for the purpose by the taxi drivers of Buenos Aires...