Word: gallic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Franchise Sagan is a Gallic Maugham who knows instinctively how deep to probe, what not to say, and when to quit. Her swift vignettes, like Maugham's, are the product of a far more complex and searching intelligence than cold type exposes, and her novels are like fragile sand dollars-elegant, delicate designs...
Many a man groans and bears it when he comes home to find a TV dinner in the oven. Not Pierre Franey. The first time he found frozen dinners in his house at Valley Stream, N.Y., recalls Franey, "I was furious." His gall was on account of Gallic upbringing. Born 46 years ago in Burgundy, Franey began an apprenticeship as a kitchen boy at 14, learned to cook at Paris' Drouant restaurant (two Michelin stars), reached his culinary peak as chef of New York's Pavilion (which would undoubtedly rate three stars if Michelin graded U.S. establishments). Like...
Meanwhile, everything is a sadistic voyeur's fun fair. The reader, like the characters, should be in stitches as the jolly Gallic authors follow the criminal careers of the separate members of the subdivided victim, grafted as they are onto blameless citizens. As for the anomalous occurrences in the bedroom, no mind need boggle. The upshot of this gruesome farce is that the head of the condemned criminal contrives to commit several posthumous murders...
...faithfully follows 25 minor ones, including such little-played games as field hockey and volleyball. The only sports of any significance that L'Équipe does not cover are horse racing, which it opposes on moral grounds, plus British cricket, U.S. football and baseball, which are Greek to Gallic readers...
Sense of History. That he was, and with a Gallic vengeance. In Leningrad, De Gaulle attended Mass in the city's only remaining Catholic church, Notre Dame de Lourdes, and received Communion while 500 Leningrad Catholics sang in Latin. In impeccable Russian, he quoted Pushkin on Sankt-Peterburg: "So stand in glory, Peter's city, and stand as invincible as Russia." He plunged into the Leningrad crowds-estimated as high as 1,000,000-shaking hands and dragging a reluctant Kosygin behind him. He swept through the Hermitage, gazing judiciously at Rembrandts and Murillos but discreetly skipping...