Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came the first hopeful development in the revolt. During the debate, Pompidou had gently urged that the labor leaders sit down with him to talk about a settlement. Séguy sent a message that he was ready to bargain; the leaders of the two other big unions expressed similar sentiments. The unions also formulated their demands: a 50% minimum-wage hike, a 40-hour week (v. 45 to 48 hours at present), improved medical benefits, retirement at 60 (v. 65). Such bargaining might yet lead France back into a rational, if highly inflationary, world...
Aiming for nothing less than the abolition of capitalist society, they had no reasonable secondary goal to fall back to. Instead, at sit-ins in the historic Odeon Theater and the Sorbonne amphitheater, they prattled endlessly about how rotten the world is. Some professors and left-wing intellectuals joined in the discussion. Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre dropped by the Sorbonne. To Danny the Red, Sartre said: "Something has come forth from you that is astonishing and overwhelming. It denies everything that our society, as it is today, has done. It is what I will call the extension of the limits...
...revolt was played by the workers, who plainly preferred to avoid any direct ties with the young radicals. Soccer players occupied the headquarters of the soccer association, forced the cancellation of all matches. Leggy strippers occupied the Folies Bergère, locking out the customers. Sewage workers staged a sewerside sit-in. Buses, trains, taxis and all French commercial aircraft came to a halt. At first, French automobilistes created huge traffic snarls as they tried to go about in their cars; then, as gas supplies gave out, the streets became uncommonly deserted. In Paris and other cities, garbage accumulated in huge...
Behind the stands, relax and sit...
...know quite how it happened that I'm making $1,000,000 a month," says Cortes Wesley Randell, 32, a Washingtonian who is president and chief executive of National Stu dent Marketing Corp. "I just sit in the office and talk to people...