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...same objective and the same devasting efficiency as ever, some of the tactics employed have definitely changed. The last two decades have seen, along with the general maturing of the old grad, a conspicuous weakening of the concept of Class solidarity. Consequently, Class agents and other apostles of the ancien regime, finding that the "good old '28" ploy doesn't work so well any more, have had to look around for a new pitch...
...Program: "My boys are in!" shouted a gleeful Poujade last week. He himself did not run for office. At his headquarters villa, he said that the first order of business should be the convocation of Etats Généraux, a throwback to the ancien regime before the French Revolution, when the clergy, the nobility and the lower classes were the three estates who met to advise the King. "They will be formed by delegates of different social classes ... I hope that the government itself will convoke them. I am not so naive as to believe that it will...
...Some people are born to spend their lives catching up; and they are as a rule the passionate ones." The aphorism is a lean and literary fugitive that flourished most elegantly in the salons of France's ancien regime. The mere fact of its reappearance on the San Francisco docks makes this book noteworthy...
...masterpieces of French and Italian drawing on loan from France's Museum of Besan-Qon and showing this week at The Detroit Institute of Arts. From Detroit the show will go on to Indianapolis, Cincinnati and San Francisco to give gallerygoers a fascinating look at what the ancien regime regarded as modern...
...away with such "dying metaphors" as toe the line, ride roughshod over, play into the hands of, stand shoulder to shoulder with, such "verbal false limbs" as make contact with, play a leading role in, serve the purpose of, and such "pretentious diction" as phenomenon, constitute, epochmaking, unforgettable, ancien régime, status quo. And he would clearly define or do without such "meaningless words" as realistic, sentimental, fascism, democracy, progressive, reactionary...