Word: saxonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assuage the Gallic gland, French men gulp some 7,000 varieties of patent medicines - notably, Les Petites Pilules Carters Pour Le Foie - as well as treating it to massage, hot baths, compresses, radioactive water, herbs, fasts, purges, exercises, and injections, naturally, of liver. Says an Anglo-Saxon doctor who has practiced for many years in Paris: "I have never examined a Frenchman who did not believe that he had liver trouble." Undoubtedly, the Frenchman's liver takes a worse beating than any other variety on earth, except that of the geese they force-feed for foie gras. The French...
Crises for Cats. In most other civilized countries, the liver is rated one of the body's most rugged and efficient organs; the original protein factory, it can actually repair its own damaged cells and lost tissue. The Anglo-Saxon often attributes liver ailments to malnutrition, a fate to which the liver is not conspicuously subject in France, where every foodstuff is weighed for its effect on the foie. In the age-old belief that eggs overtax young livers, the average French parent would sooner poach a hare than an egg for the children. Chocolate, butter and cream...
...color on a vast canvas stretching from New England to Rome and Vienna. Tom Tryon, lithe and beatific as Father Stephen Fermoyle, plays the prospective prince. At first he falters. His sister Mona (Carol Lynley) tells him in the confessional that she has "slept with" a boy (John Saxon) whom she cannot marry because he is a Jew. Fermoyle never gives absolution, for he has long since despaired of converting the boy, who utters wisecracks like: "Hasn't Darwin kind of put the skids to GenesisT...
...Lorelei Lee ("A kiss on the hand may be quite Continental, but diamonds are a girl's best friend"), most European women welcome the new wave of hand kissing, and to their men it has always seemed a more intriguing approach to a woman than the aseptic Anglo-Saxon handshake. As a Viennese satirist wrote...
...Gaullists include Konrad Aden auer, increasingly suspicious of U.S. aims, former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, former Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, and Bundestag Deputy Karl Theodor Baron von Guttenberg. They are all more or less sympathetic to De Gaulle's concept of a little Europe, with "Anglo-Saxon" influences diminished...