Word: arce
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Paris, President de Gaulle rode through a cheering crowd of 45,000 to lay an armistice wreath at the tomb of France's Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe. But police headed off a possible riot only by rounding up 1,900 demonstrators, and De Gaulle's old comrade in arms, Algerian-born Marshal Alphonse Juin, refused to take part in the Arc de Triomphe ceremonies. "I had to do something to protest," cried Juin, who is France's only living marshal. His gesture placed France's most influential soldier beside such disaffected army chieftains...
...words together and sometimes employs phonetic spellings. Others see in Zazie a device of savage social satire. Says New Wave Movie Director Louis (Les Amants) Malle: "She's actually the angel come to announce the destruction of Babylon." Still others have compared her to everyone from Joan of Arc (defending popular virtues against monarchists with Napoleonic delusions) to Lolita. In fact, Zazie is less of a Lolita than a Parisian Pollyanna, for she is a warmhearted fille, completely uninvolved in the sordid sex life that she is always talking about...
...time passed, the park became a mishmash of changing tastes: there were Roman gods, a Joan of Arc, a majestically cloaked Saint-Gaudens Pilgrim, a copy of Rodin's naked Thinker. Then in 1913 the wealthy Mrs. Ellen Phillips Samuel, daughter of a Philadelphia iron tycoon, left in her will a trust fund to be used to buy "statuary emblematical of the history of America." Emblem No 1 was a sturdy Icelandic Viking named Thorfinn Karlsefni; after him came a procession of American types-a Ploughman, an Immigrant, a Slave, a Miner. Finally in 1950 the city decided...
...means an impersonal one. Who else but De Gaulle could lead France in this fashion? If there is any one else, the General does not name him. Implicit in his entire work is the assumption that he alone is France's Man of Destiny; that, like Joan of Arc, he is unique and irreplaceable...
When Charles de Gaulle emerged from his twelve-year retirement at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, Canard hailed him as Christopher Colombey, and celebrated his crusading zeal by calling him "Charles d'Arc." But lately Le Canard has taken to picturing De Gaulle with a crown and wearing the robes of Charlemagne or Louis XV ("Aprés le déluge, moi!"). As the Sun King himself, De Gaulle is shown crying: "Bread! Next, they'll be asking for cars and washing machines...