Word: gallic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaulois have all gone into the making of those women," he declared, pursing his fingers in his familiar Gallic attitude. "He who says that Radcliffe girls are born, not made, knows not whereof he walls," Gaulois continued...
...essay on the contemporary French fascist Charles Maurras is also an examination of the French school that connects Gallic tradition with purely Greek and Roman origins and abhors the "barbarian" influences of Anglo-Saxondom. The study of General De Gaulle (written when the Free French had their headquarters in London) has much to say about the traditional reluctance of the French to accept a leader whose feet are not actually on French soil. And in addition to his wealth of purely French material, Author Brogan draws constantly and easily on analogies and contrasts from British and U.S. history and characteristics...
...Oxford lecture, delivered by a French Existentialist named Jean Bacon, a young woman became confused about problems of "being and nothingness" and asked the lecturer where babies came from. Said M. Bacon with Gallic urbanity: "De ses parents, évidemment!" (From their parents, naturally). Oxford's weekly Isis discussed the lecture under the coy title "Sartre Resartus...
Traditionally, Hamlet has never fared very happily in France. Though many a good French writer has tried to translate that least Gallic of poems, the first to make a first-rate job of it was Hamlet-like André Gide. Last week Gide's translation was superbly presented on the stage. Long before all the brilliance of Paris rose to cheer the play's swift, incisive three and a half hours, it was clear that tradition was dead & buried. From now on Hamlet was going to be happy in Paris...
...becois poured into town-children, priests, nuns, farmers from Beauce and Beaupré. On the fairgrounds down on the flats of St. François parish they drank gallons of petite bière d'épinette, a mild sort of Gallic root beer; ate tons of frites (French fried potatoes); the children rode the miniature airplanes and the loop-the-loops, jubilantly dizzy...