Word: mirabeau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst gaffes of his career, Bevan denounced Conservatives-presumably, all 8,093,858 Britons who had voted the Tory ticket in 1945-as "lower than vermin." Nor were his own leaders spared Nye's spiced tongue. He thought of his Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, as a Mirabeau and an archmediocrity. He called the humane and thoughtful Hugh Gaitskell, Attlee's successor as party leader, a "desiccated calculating machine." Nye was, as Michael Foot amply documents, his own worst enemy-although, as Labor Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin once retorted, "Not while I'm alive...
...with modern monoliths-a more formal cultural center, a trade center, a hotel, and a Metro station, at an estimated cost of $80 million. One-quarter of the acreage will become a park to set off 16th century St.-Eustache, scene of Molière's baptism and Mirabeau's funeral (when the church was temporarily a revolutionary "temple of agriculture") and where butchers once hung sides of mutton along the exterior wall. President Georges Pompidou will undoubtedly approve the council decision. A museum of contemporary art planned for the renewed area happens to be a pet Pompidou...