Word: personalities
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...politicians whom the old Marshal came to trust were War Minister General Charles Huntziger, Navy Minister Admiral Jean Darlan, Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council Paul Baudouin, whom Laval ousted as Foreign Minister to take over the job himself. In this group, and in the person of General Maxime Weygand in Africa, centred the opposition to "collaboration" of a kind that would mean utter capitulation. Their strongest cards were the remainder of the French Navy and Weygand's Army in Africa, and these cards grew in power with Italy's reverses in the Mediterranean...
...face-lifting operation on the Duchess of Windsor. ... I wish categorically to deny that I performed such an operation in Miami. Furthermore, may I suggest that you of the press accept official announcements of the Duke and Duchess. I was absent from the city to operate on another prominent person-not the Duchess. Furthermore, I shall soon go to the Bahamas on a pleasure trip, not to be construed as a trip for the purpose of operating on the Duchess...
...must realize that people who have come from a bombed area are in a highly nervous state and that one of the things that helps them is to be allowed to talk about it. It is essential that a listener should give the whole of her attention to the person who is relating his or her experience. There must be no turning away for a second, no indication that one is not interested...
Like most identical twins, Freda & Ida talk as one person, in a continuous flow of words. Sample: "(Ida) People have always tried to separate us, but we prefer to be together. (Freda) We seem to be sympathetic types; there is something we get from one another. (Ida) Besides it really increases our production, people think we are bears for work because we do two pictures while someone else does one. (Freda) We are really very prolific...
...attempts a description of the separated inseparable, of happiness out of its context and synthesized in an isolated form in the same manner as existence in a moment might be isolated from the stream of day by day. The second, in spite of its title is not about a person, but about a person, two people, as they represent an idea: the struggle of the imaginary and the real. This is dealt with at length by John Finch in the same magazine--his second paragraph to be exact. Finally, the third poem deals with reflections and meditations on the impossible...