Word: national
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Wallace hoped that his presence in the 1968 elections would deny any candidate an Electoral College majority, leaving him with the decisive votes to name the next President. Before Election Day, according to the Gallup poll, 66% of the nation favored direct presidential elections. By December, the figure had jumped...
...closely associated through the years, Pompidou and De Gaulle could hardly differ more in taste, temperament and approach to life. De Gaulle believed in the imperious exercise of power; Pompidou has promised to serve the nation as an "arbiter." De Gaulle spoke 19th century French and believed in the magic of being mysterious and aloof. Pompidou mingles easily with jet-setters and peasants alike, a ubiquitous cigarette dangling off-center on his lower lip. De Gaulle liked best the France of the history books. Pompidou lives each day as it comes, reveling in the hurly-burly of politics and high...
...hardly seemed possible, but Charles de Gaulle was gone. At one moment he had been there, seemingly as durable as the Arc de Triomphe, the most commanding figure ruling any nation, large or small, on the face of the earth. Now, abruptly, he was a retired country gentleman, a recluse in the tiny village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises sorting his memoirs, to be glimpsed only through a furtive telephoto lens and, most astonishing, to be heard not at all. Within twelve hours after his resignation in the wake of a referendum vote against his policies, workmen had moved...
...simply that the general's mantle is too large for any one man to hope to wear. France itself has changed, and the departure of De Gaulle is bound to accelerate not only the pace of change but also the people's realization of the nation they are becoming...
...country home (la petite maison de campagne). There are now more than 2,000,000 people with second homes, and they pack France's narrow country roads with their Peugeot 404s and R.16s. Many others take off to visit relatives in the provinces, for France is a nation that is pulling its young out of the country and into the cities. More than 350,000 Bretons, mostly young, have migrated to Paris, and in their off hours they gather in favorite Montparnasse bars and drink to Breizh Atao (Brittany forever...