Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although I agree in general with your article about Switzerland, there is one remark in it that I feel is unjust. You stated that the Swiss do not like foreigners except for their money. Do you know how many Swiss have learned the Italian language for no other purpose than for ease of communication with the immigrants...
...singing, something that's very hard to do when the dancers are performing in front of them. For the actors, the music disappears, except for the drone, and one is left with words. Had the material and the performers in all three media been equally good. I could only remark on the success of the syntheses. But there is no comparison...
Since Charles de Gaulle came out of retirement to become President of France in 1958 the obvious parallels between Gaullism and royalism have been stretched perilously thin. To remark that De Gaulle tends to think and act more like a king than an elected official is both true and important. To remark the same thing for the thousandth time is perhaps amusing but rather pointless. The resemblances between De Gaulle and Louis XIV or Napoleon still make handy gimmicks for political cartoonists, but they have long since ceased to illuminate the methods and aims of French government...
...audience of over 100 included one voluble Bircher, who explained that he was there to keep Hall "as close to the truth as possible." "What do you have to say about FDR's remark that 'Some of my best friends are Communists'?", he demanded at one point...
...mischievous monetary dealings, also tried to make some soothing statements. He telephoned a popular French radio question-and-answer program to declare "as a private citizen" that France's conversion of dollars had been routine. He did, however, concede that the action had "political effects," a remark that ranks as the year's understatement to date...