Word: pense
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Frenchmen thought the English behavior not curious but downright sinister. Muttered one government official: "You can't exclude the possibility of some arrière pensée [ulterior motives]." Reported Le Monde: "The hidden intentions of the British can easily be guessed at. This was a fine...
The House of Representatives might have been debating the merits of apple pie for all the opposition that was voiced. Before the House was President Johnson's proposed $4.8 billion excise-tax cut, and House leaders had set aside five hours one day last week for pro and con...
Last week President Johnson played the most gracious sort of national host to Italy's visiting Premier Aldo Moro. He afforded Moro the rare privilege of attending a U.S. Cabinet meeting. He showered Moro with gifts-including a 19th century Sheraton gilt mirror, a pen stand with two gold...
Asbell pities culturally deprived children who are "growing up unequipped to live in an urban, primarily middle-class, world of papers and pens, books and conversations, machines and desks and time clocks." He fails to note that culturally advantaged children born into that idyllic world frequently find it unsatisfactory, or...
Corsets & Cats. Landowska died five years ago, aged 80, leaving behind a legacy of great recordings and the articles, scoldings, commentaries and pensées that are now gathered together in this book.