Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There remains the possibility that he could ride back to great influence on a wave of popular discontent, if the cold war turns hot again and the United States becomes involved in new difficulties in Asia. In his protest against the present course of American foreign policy, McCarthy has announced: "I shall go to the people" to warn them against the dangers of an accommodation with communism. "I may be too late, but insofar as my abilities and endurance permit," he promises, "I shall see to it that this country does not die without the people of this country being...
...unison, French Communists stood up in the National Assembly and cried, 150 voices strong: "Popular Front!" The other politicians in the divided Assembly, though they clapped their hands over their ears and refused to listen, could not entirely shut out the echoing, uncomfortable sound...
...party for Good European Christian Pineau. 51, stepson of Playwright Jean (The Madwoman of Chaillot) Giraudoux and himself an author of children's fairy stories. Mollet spurned the Communist support proffered ("Let no one think that I'm the man to prepare the future of Popular Front . . . I will never lead my party to suicide"), but seemed fated to get it anyway. Ultimately, said Communist Duclos complacently, "popular pressure . . . will force the formation" of a Popular Front...
This year, as usual, a million people will squeeze into the Folies to see the current revue, Ah! Qnelle Folie. It is the third most popular tourist attraction in France.* Spectators who return after many years note that the faces of the girls change, but the figures seem to stay the same. In Folies-Bergère (219 pp.; Button; $3.95), Paul Derval, director and titular head of the theater for almost 50 years, tells the naked truth in unadorned prose about Paris' most ancient music hall. It is the first time the story has been told at length...
...More popular: Versailles and the Eiffel Tower...