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While Hollywood movies send up skyrockets of comedy and terror, the French cinema smolders like an untended hearth fire. No more the giddiness of the New Wave, whose anarchic high spirits fragmented film language and frag-bombed bourgeois complacency. Twenty years later, the bourgeoisie is again dominant, but now more...
Mostly young and educated, the Mujahedin charge that the ruling clergy's primitivism and "petit bourgeois understanding of Islam" merely pave the way for a return of Western exploitation in Iran. The guerrillas want to prod the revolution into breaking down class distinctions through a radical redistribution of wealth...
In May another Maryknoll father, Roy Bourgeois, burst into the news when he disappeared in El Salvador, leaving behind a letter that accused the Reagan Administration of providing military aid to a "repressive dictatorship at war with its own people." Maryknoll Superior General James Noonan rushed from the society'...
Conservative Catholics saw red last year when Maryknoll magazine, edited by D'Escoto before he joined the Nicaraguan revolution, lauded Cuba for "advances in a brief span of 20 years [which] are unparalleled in Latin America." The magazine's publisher, Father Darryl Hunt, like the ill-starred Father...
In his autobiography, My Own Truth, published in 1969, Mitterrand describes the improbable background that produced France's pre-eminent leftist. He was born in 1916 in Jarnac, a small southwestern town in the Cognac region. His upbringing was seemingly strictly conventional-piously Roman Catholic and petit bourgeois. His...