Word: poncet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Intoxicated by God. His story is told in terms of a quest by the novelist for the heart of Manuel's mystery. Manuel's father worked on the coffee finca of Werner Poncet, a German planter of perverted tastes. After José had killed a man with a machete and in turn been murdered, Maria took flight from this Mexican Egypt to give birth to Manuel. From infancy he is one apart. He has a "disease" not quite epilepsy, but something that sometimes makes him unaware of things around him. At nine he whittles a wooden nail...
...them. Day after day, they are tormented and harassed until they are morally and physically exhausted." Pointedly, Coty cited Clemenceau's dictum: "Liberty is the right to discipline oneself so as not to be disciplined by others." In the pages of Le Figaro, André François-Poncet, longtime French High Commissioner in Germany and a "living immortal" of the Academic Franchise (see below), declared: "[Another crisis] would justify the calumnies which depict us, in all languages of the world, as the 'sick man of Europe,' the worm-eaten plank to which it would be folly...
...Paris, André François-Poncet, 65, prewar French Ambassador in Berlin and Rome and now High Commissioner to West Germany, faced one of the toughest diplomatic chores of his career. As a newly elected member of the French Academy, he had the traditional duty of eulogizing the man to whose seat he had been elevated: the late Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain. He spent four months polishing his speech. The result left his fellow academicians, used to nimble-tongued exhibitions, applauding with admiration. Sample pirouette: "Some of the pages which Marshal Pétain wrote...
...subcommittee was interested in other Oliphant friends. One of these was Poncet Davis, an Akron businessman. Oliphant was Davis' guest at the Kentucky...
...Finest. "Poncet Davis was and is an intimate friend of mine," said Oliphant. "He is one of the finest men I have ever met. He later told me he had tax difficulties and I disqualified myself. I was being very scrupulous with Mr. Davis. Ultra-scrupulous...