Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greece's junta leaders like to think of the country as a patient that requires their constant attention. Last week, as the regime finally made public its long-awaited new constitution, Colonel-turned-Premier George Papadopoulos put on his best bedside manner...
...Soon. With his penchant for obfuscation, De Gaulle phased out Pompidou in such a manner that the import of the affair was open to varying interpretations. After national elections, the Premier is required by law to hand in his and his government's resignation. De Gaulle used the procedure to dump Pompidou, but then cast the situation in another light by including in his farewell letter an intriguing line: "Dear Friend, hold yourself in readiness to fulfill any mandate the nation may one day bestow upon...
...read The Realist. It is necessary and important to know that there are other potentialities and possibilities from those one tends to automatically veer towards, and even if one were to not rush out to set up a free community one could perhaps be moved in the mystical manner of the diggers. It is difficult to curb the fluttering feeling induced by phrase-segments like, "Free Time! Free Time? What was time before it was bought...
Overwhelming Irony. With the possible exception of John Kenneth Galbraith, most American critics embarked on a similar analysis of the U.S. would be likely to castigate their own culture in the stern and relentless manner of modern Cotton Mathers. But the French manage to be amusing, or at least elegant, even about the prospect of doom. Nourissier's book is charming and witty, his chief weapon being irony. If the irony at times seems to overwhelm the reader, that too is part of his message: the French are so full of contradictions that he can only explain their affection...
Servan-Schreiber, at 44 the editor-publisher of the successful weekly newsmagazine L'Express, is more American than French in the manner of his criticism. Deadly serious, he says flatly that "our back is to the wall" and warns that France and other European countries will fall disastrously behind America if they do not learn its methods quickly...