Word: vieux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is typical of conversations that you hear all the time down here. This one in particular took place in a food store here in the vieux carre...
...have found a champion in James Biddle, 38, new president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, whose office receives up to 15 "major" requests for help each week. They come from adversaries of imminent threats, such as a freeway that would desecrate the waterfront of New Orleans' Vieux Carré, and advocates of quixotic quests, such as preserving the Warrensburg, Mo., courthouse, where in 1870 George Graham Vest voiced his Eulogy...
...Gaulle," asked President Kennedy in 1963, "or will De Gaulle get rid of you?" The question, addressed to young French Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, was meant only partly as a joke. Even then, Servan-Schreiber was the most eloquent, most influential-and most consistent-critic that le vieux Charles had to endure. As a liberal who believed in the West, he abhorred De Gaulle's rejection of the U.S. and Britain as partners in the development of Europe. As publisher of the weekly newsmagazine L'Express, he has constantly attacked Gaullist protectionism as symbolic...
...celebrated drama of Goethe," said le vieux Charles, "Mephistopheles described himself thus: 'I am the spirit which denies all.' Then, in listening to the advice of Mephistopheles, the unfortunate Dr. Faust went from mis fortune to misfortune until final damnation. Frenchwomen, Frenchmen, we will not do that. Pushing aside doubt, the demon of all decadence, we will follow our way. It is that of a France which believes in herself and which, because of that, is open to the future...
...Vieux argued that Britain's membership would create "an Atlantic situation," or a Market "under U.S. predominance." He said that the renewed application of the British should be rejected until they become more European in their outlook and policies, "until they are more like we are." Despite these imperious words, West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt succeeded in bringing the issue of British membership before the Market's Council of Ministers in Brussels. There French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville produced the novel argument that an enlarged Market might seem threatening to the Communist nations and thus cause...