Word: sportif
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much we can learn from you, save for what we call modern development," says one intellectual. "We tend to equate you with machines for whom there is no deep thinking." Says another: "Americans have no culture, unless you call beer and big bosoms culture." At Saigon's Cercle Sportif and around upper-middle-class dining tables, a frequent topic of conversation is "la gaucherie americaine"-which may include anything from the way G.I.s gun their big trucks through Saigon's streets to the contention that one U.S. embassy official speaks to President Thieu as though he were...
...pride of the old capital, has reopened, although still in temporary quarters. A professor says sadly: "We have more than 3,000 students again. But we are not yet a university. We lack books, facilities and teachers-most of all we lack spirit." At the once gracious Cercle Sportif, ducks waddle across the abandoned, waterlogged tennis courts, and club members sip their aperitifs against a curtain of bullet-pocked walls...
Even as Frankel's story appeared, people began assailing its verisimilitude. White House Press Secretary George E. Reedy swore that the President "has received no such communication." In Saigon, Ambassador Lodge swam ten laps at the Cercle Sportif pool before facing inquisitive newsmen. "I'm supposed to be sick, am I?" he grinned and, with that, disavowed the story of his resignation. "There's no truth...
Marching up and down again on the runways, they were introduced as part of the "little boy," or sportif look at last summer's Paris showings. Nobody knew then whether grown-up American women were going to be willing to look like a legion of oversized Christopher Robins. Nobody need have worried. Boots are a shoe...
...this year's Paris collections put ideas into Abercrombie's fusty head. The Paris designs were full of Robin Hood hats, thigh-length boots, and the look "sportif" for town. Could girls, should girls, look attractive on safari...