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...power he has accumulated during his term. Few disagree that he has concentrated presidential authority to a greater degree than either De Gaulle or Georges Pompidou, his two Fifth Republic predecessors. "France is governed by an elected sovereign, a republican monarch, almost an enlightened despot " writes French Journalist Alain Duhamel [Giscard] is at the same time the Queen of England and Her Majesty's Prime Minister...
...have dispensed with that hopeless under-achiever altogether. So we look inward for the answers; personal mental-emotional-physical "health" is our supreme god and psychology, or sociophysiology, or physio-socio-psychology, or whatever they're calling the practice these days, is the new religion of millions. Director Alain Resnais has discovered a new high priest of the faith; his name is Dr. Henri Laborit and he's certain that he knows all of us better than we know ourselves...
...present 76 after the events of 1968. The number of graduate degrees awarded rose from 90,000 in 1967 to 145,000 a decade later. Many of the newer campuses are small schools in the provinces whose programs were sharply scythed by Saunier-Seïté. Said Alain Touraine, research director of the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences: "Instead of both selective grandes écoles [the elite specialist schools outside the regular university system that train most of France's future leaders] and open-admission universities, we will have the grandes écoles...
...Oncle d'Amérique. Screenwriter Jean Gruault and Director Alain Resnais have devised a lecture on human behavior that is also a delightful comedy of manners. Demands and rewards intelligence. Take notes, and enjoy...
After Le Monde cast doubts on the legality of these moves, Justice Minister Alain Peyrefitte ordered charges brought against Editor Fauvet and Chief Editorial Writer Philippe Boucher under an obscure 1958 law that protects the legal system from "acts, words or writings" that may undermine the authority or independence of the judiciary. The penalty if convicted: up to six months in jail. Two of France's principal judicial associations promptly took the journalists' side. One magistrate noted that he felt "better defended by a free press." A number of French publications, including Hersant's usually approving France...