Word: les
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always imitate people richer than you," says Paris Interior Decorator Slavik, who designed "Les Drugstores" in Paris. Slavik makes the point, though, that the imitator usually puts his own imprint on what he imitates; he did not design his stores to resemble American drugstores, but "we knew the name would attract, and we were right." Though American-made goods, from cake mixes to Mr. Clean, are now taken for granted in many parts of the world, many of the typically "American" wares are just as derivative as Les Drugstores. They are frequently not made either...
...artillery," De Gaulle asked the interpreter. After the reply, De Gaulle said approvingly: "You are a great artillerist." Still he refused to lay a wreath at the Stalingrad memorial. That recalled his comment to the Russians in 1944 when he viewed Stalingrad for the first time: "Un grand peuple les allenands." Everywhere he went, De Gaulle ate heartily, but at the Volgograd hydroelectric station he met his match. The station officials had prepared a 300-lb. sturgeon stuffed with caviar. De Gaulle eyed it skeptically and said: "There always has to be a victim." Only once did he lose patience...
...LES BELLES ANNÉES DU MUSIC-HALL (Pathé). An overwhelming series of reissues on 10-in. LPs of many of the great performers of the past...
...reader may be hard put to feel much indignation. In the catalogue of Hitler's crimes, Evian-les-Bains amounted to little more than a misdemeanor. Hitler went on to destroy German Jewry, and Habe sensibly does not suggest that the successful sale and salvation of 40,000 Jews in 1938 would have prevented that wholesale slaughter. As Habe admits, Hitler probably never intended to find a market at Evian-les-Bains; his purpose may have been to show, by the free world's refusal to enter into such a negotiation, that anti-Semitism is merely a matter...
...Evian-les-Bains was an episode, scarcely enough to sustain a novel. Habe's book is upholstered with plot digressions, epigrams ("the everlasting exchange of deceptions which we call social life"), philosophizing and methodical character analyses beneath which the characters themselves threaten to disappear. The figure of Habe's protagonist, Heinrich von Benda, is so overburdened with the mantle of tragedy that his death, of a heart attack in the train bearing him back to occupied Vienna, comes as a kind of comic relief...