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Since its birth in 1946. France's slick Réalités Magazine (circ. 125,000 monthly in French, 65,000 in English) has harbored persistent doubts about the U.S.'s continuing vitality and sense of purpose. In 1953 the magazine sent a team across the Atlantic to take America's pulse; the report was generally favorable. But the French can be only so charitable about U.S. culture, and the misgivings remained. Now Réalités has produced another exhaustive study of the U.S., the result of a five-month, 19,000-mile tour...
...examination was conducted with Gallic thoroughness. Editor Max led off by consulting his old friend and former employer, Dr. George Gallup, director of Princeton's American Institute of Public Opinion, deployed a journalistic crew of seven in accordance with Gallup's advice. All told, Réalités' writers asked 25,000 questions in more than 3,000 interviews. On the Eastern seaboard, Reporter Pierre Marchant spent two weeks talking to 60 U.S. educators, business executives, politicians and clergymen. He posed to them all the single leading, loaded question: "Is there anything about the U.S. that...
...probe the mysterious Midwest. Réalités selected Galesburg, Ill. (which was crowned "an all-American city" by the National Municipal League in 1957), sent Reporter Danielle Hunebelle there to spend three weeks in the home of Galesburg Car Dealer Norman H. Weaver and his wife and four children. Mystified by the Weavers' un-Gallic ways, Reporter Hunebelle let them do their own talking, stitched together a series of candid Weaver monologues that runs for eleven pages in the magazine. She got to like them, though their pious earnestness and indifference to food were trying. "Generally speaking...
Today's most self-consciously revolutionary fiction is the alitérature (non-literature) written by the so-called "anti-novelists" of France. Man is no longer viewed as an actor on the stage of life but as a microorganism, or atom, reacting to obscure laws of physics and biochemistry. Leaders of this movement are Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras and Michel Butor, whose new book, Degrees, is perhaps the most complex anti-novel to date. For, by some mysterious aliterary law, the more schematic and mechanistic an author's view of life, the more complicated...
France-Soir is not the only place where Lazareff dips an end-chewed pen. His France-Dimanche, a sexy-sensational weekly, hits 400,000 circulation. He has a weekly sports Record, (circ. 180,000), something for the kiddies called France Soir-Jeudi, a slick monthly, Réalités, which he calls "a very modest FORTUNE," and a syndicate called Scoop, which sells France-Soir's features to the hinterland. His wife, Héléne Gordon Lazareff, who trained on the New York Times and Harper's Bazaar, now edits Elle, a Parisian women...