Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glass gallery, says Yale's Art History Professor Vincent Scully Jr., Yamasaki has produced "a twittering aviary." "Just where you want strength," says Philip Johnson, "it isn't there." Snorts Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: "Yamasaki's as much an architect as I am Napoleon. He was an architect, but now he's nothing but a decorator. Sure, people are getting bored with the glass box - I am too. But now there's this clique that says, 'Let's build a beautiful building,' and there is not even a thought...
...returned to Katanga, setting up headquarters in the town of Kolwezi. He was disposed to negotiate, he said, but if the U.N. refused to do so, "we shall fight to the end." Upset at his gendarmerie's pitiful showing, he reportedly sacked hot-tempered Army Commander General Norbert ("Napoleon") Moké, relied chiefly on a force of 200 or 300 white mercenaries for a possible last-ditch stand. But apparently even the mercenaries left something to be desired. Two whites, a Belgian and a Hungarian-born U.S. Army deserter who were captured by the Indians at the Lufira River...
...Germany, Switzerland has treasured its strict neutrality in world affairs.* As early as 1674 the Swiss Diet officially pronounced the concept to be the country's guiding principle. The one time that Switzerland was forced to join an outside conflict-by leaping to the Austro-British side against Napoleon in 1815 six days before Waterloo-Swiss soldiers sent into France lost interest, turned around and went home. Neutral in two world wars this century. Switzerland is today not even a member of the United Nations...
From Britain came a mighty roar. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan suggested that Acheson "has fallen into an error which has been made by quite a lot of people in the course of the last 400 years, including Philip of Spain, Louis XIV, Napoleon, the Kaiser, and Hitler." The Daily Mirror noted that Britain had been "written off" by another American in 1940 - "the rich, fainthearted Mr. Joseph Kennedy, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in the days of Dunkirk." The Manchester Guardian was less imperious -and more candid: "A former American Secretary of State who looks like...
...Frenchman's mounting impatience with inconvenience and inertia, Gaullists have ambitious schemes for rural development ("gardening the national territory"), urban improvement, school construction to redeem what one minister calls "our terrible rendezvous with youth." The nation's administrative structure, which has wheezed along with little change since Napoleon's time, will be modernized. Gaullist technicians are already planning to overhaul Paris. Though 18% of the entire population is concentrated in the capital and growing by 100,000 a year, officialdom seems more concerned with preserving old houses than providing new ones. Says one minister...