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...even church leaders now "find it chic to be as far left as possible." Members of French President Georges Pompidou's capitalist-minded Cabinet speak somewhat defensively of pursuing a "third way" between capitalism and Communism. "A Communist was once an anti-Christ," notes Le Monde Reporter André Laurens. "Now he has become a man to have a dialogue with. What a drama for French conservatives. Their bishops talk kindly about socialism, and their priests favorably about Marxism...
...strapwork; the airless painted space, filled with large twisting bodies based on Michelangelo's figura serpentinata; the strained and tangled poses; the weird color, by turns opulent and acidly dry; the Biblical and classical allegories, recondite to the point of eccentricity. "A courtly art," observed Art Historian André Chastel, "always tends to develop a universe from which nature is absent"-and Mannerism was the courtliest and most artificial of styles. At Fontainebleau, the world of nature and the spontaneous passions was sublimated-in art as, one presumes, in life-into an elaborate system of symbols...
Veteran Gaullist Olivier Guichard, 52, a baron and longtime Pompidou protége, could be in line for Messmer's job. Schumann's spot at the Quay d'Orsay could go to his smooth-mannered deputy, André Bettencourt, 53, who was named Acting Foreign Minister last week when Schumann resigned...
...Charles de Gaulle was nothing less than "twice the savior of his country," and even today the Gaullists are reluctant to entrust the telling of the precious legend to anyone who might tamper with it. Nobody knows this better than French Film Makers Alain de Sédouy and André Harris, who (along with Director Marcel Ophuls) collaborated in 1969 on the superb documentary The Sorrow and the Pity, an exhaustive and exhausting (4½-hour-long) study of a French city under the Nazi Occupation (TIME, March...
...religion, in fact, may be one reason he is held in low esteem by some scientists. As Institute Physicist Freeman Dyson notes: "There are a lot of scientists who consider religion as a childhood disease." Logician Morton White dismissed Bellah's work as "pedestrian and pretentious." Mathematician André Weil called him "not of the intellectual and academic quality of a professor at the institute." When Geertz challenged their credentials to judge, White retorted: "This guy doesn't write in Chinese, in Japanese, or in mathematical symbols we can't understand. This wasn't a case...