Word: arons
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France's leading political observer was discussing the current national scene last night in his suite at Leverett House. Here for the fall term as a research professor in Government, Raymond Aron is best known in this country as a chronicler of the Fifth Republic, in such books as the recently translated France, Steadfast and Changing...
...country, Aron's reputation is based largely on his frequent magazine articles and on the two columns of political commentary he writes each week for the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. Aron's newspaper readership is estimated at half a million. His influence among French intellectuals and statesmen is comparable to that of Walter Lippman in America...
...Aron is not giving any courses during his stay at the University. He has, however, talked before innumerable student and faculty groups, and is also busy writing a book on international relations...
Last night Professor Aron (he is professor of Sociology at the Sorbonne) was discoursing on a subject that he has been asked to talk a great deal about since his arrival in this country. What are the prospects for a solution of the Algerian dilemma? And what is the future for France...
...booming West Germany, growled Berlin Critic Friedrich Luft, imported plays pack 160 theaters nightly, "but [German] culture is dead." France's top political theorist, Raymond Aron, apologized because democracy has abandoned parliamentary rule in France, Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer apologized for all the wrongs he said science has done, and U.S. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith seemed to be apologizing because the U.S. is building skyscrapers instead of schools. U.S. Novelist Mary McCarthy moaned: "Western literature is the mirror on the ceiling of the whorehouse...