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...André Malraux has gone so far as to suggest that Phaedra is not a tragedy at all. He calls it "a modern play, a drama of sexuality...
...Washington from President Kennedy and rushed into the fray. His broad face loomed from Socialist posters all over Belgium, and party workers declared that as a moderate, and a notable orator, he was just the man to counteract the alarm produced in staid Belgian voters by rabble-rousing André Renard, whose strikers had kept the nation paralyzed for five weeks and cost the economy an estimated $150 million...
Predictably excepted were the zealous followers of Labor Leader André Renard. After a harangue from Renard, 600 of his workers rioted through the streets of Liège. Renard's intransigence kept the big steel plants closed, but other Liège strikers deserted him. Streetcars ran and coal mines were operating. Furthermore, Renard had antagonized most of his fellow Socialists. At week's end even he gave up, bowed to a union leaders' vote to end the strike...
...which emancipated them sexually and enabled them to determine the size of the family.* But France is still a patriarchal society based on the idea that women do not have the right to make this decision. "The man we see waging a crusade against birth control," writes Research Scientist Andrée Vielle-Michel, "is a 19th century man, who cannot imagine a world that is not dominated by the male." What France needs, she says, is a type of 20th century man, who will join woman in building a democratic society in which she lives as comfortably...
This week the Toledo Museum of Art is displaying the first major exhibition of French 17th century art ever shown in the U.S. (see color). The show, billed as "The Splendid Century," was five years in the gathering, involved scores of French officials from Cultural Minister André Malraux on down, includes works from 50 French and U.S. museums. It opened in Washington's National Gallery, in March will move to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, its final stop...