Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rocquencourt, headed on through the green lanes of prospering France to stay overnight with De Gaulle at the country mansion of French Presidents, the centuries-old Chateau de Rambouillet. There Ike confided to De Gaulle the major conclusion of his mission to date. Said the President emphatically: he has seen a dramatic change for the better in France since De Gaulle has taken over -"a sense of purpose.'' And about De Gaulle, the President confided to a friend: "I know he's a stubborn man, but as long as he's stubborn on our side, everything...
...Steak's offer. But last week idle Amsterdamers out for a spot of nozem watching found remarkably little to look at. Those nozem who did appear in Dam Square spent their evenings in subdued conversation-and in the red-light district there was not a nozem to be seen...
...Italian moonlight, and he remembers the combat medics on bouncing Jeeps who, "kneeling and balancing and clinging miraculously with one arm, raised the other high, as one would a torch, holding a bottle of plasma, pouring life back into a broken body. I think I have never seen a soldier kneeling thus who was not in some way shrouded with a godlike grace and who did not seem sculptured and destined for immortality...
...Sorbonne, concentrating on 18th century German metaphysics. Then he set out to travel and write. Perhaps it is this kind of distance that removes Lover Man from the mountain of angry-Negro stories. Anderson is not mad at anyone. He is fascinated by the South, by what he has seen, and by what he has heard, and he manages to re-create that fascination for his reader...
Armstrong by Request (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The sort of rerun that can hardly be seen too often: an object lesson in the perils that beset the average consumer from supermarket to sidewalk grifter. The White Collar Bandit is a true-life report from the files of Manhattan's Better Business Bureau, redolent of assorted bunko artists, con men and garden-variety gyps...