Word: thermidors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris summer of 1794, the fall of Robespierre signaled the end of the Reign of Terror and opened a fresh era of calm and consolidation. It was the year II in the new French revolutionary calendar, and the month was named Thermidor. In his classic analysis, The Anatomy of Revolution, the late Harvard historian Crane Brinton called Thermidor "a convalescence from the fever of revolution...
...American racial revolt of the 1960s has in no sense been a full-scale upheaval like the French Revolution. Yet it can be said that in the relatively cool American summer of 1969, a Thermidor convalescence from the long fever of racial tumult seems to be under way. There has been no wholesale rioting in the black ghettos of the U.S. since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968. By a Department of Justice count, the number of racial disturbances of all sizes has fallen off sharply in 1969 from the two previous summers (see chart, next...
...Conn., Camden, N.J., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. In the present calm context, they seem somehow atavistic-only smaller recurrences in lesser cities of the convulsions that racked major metropolises much earlier. The whites and blacks of minor urban centers are still learning the lessons that have brought a hopeful Thermidor transformation to cities already tempered in destructive flames. For New York, Newark, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Detroit, it was the fire last time-and those cities may have profited from the experience...
...suffered a second big outbreak; in the curious chemistry of violence, they seem to have achieved at least a temporary kind of immunization. No one pretends that the problems of the nation's blacks have been solved, and no one yet dares predict what may come after the Thermidor pause is over.* But governments and ghettos alike have become more sophisticated and skillful at handling their common difficulties. Expressing a widespread view, Jack Meltzer, director of the University of Chicago Center for Urban Studies, observes: "The black community realizes that riots hurt them more than help them...
Restaurant Drouant, Place Gaillon. Monthly meeting place of the French literary club, the Académie Goncourt. Excellent seafood (coquille St. Jacques gratinée, lobster thermidor) and desserts (peach Melba, orange Jeanette). About...