Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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America's problems of governing a tightly organized industrial society through the phase of social integration are common to only one other country, the Soviet Union, and in this sense it is possible to make meaningful comparisons between the United States and the Soviet Union. Though the two societies have different conceptions of the role of the individual in the political system there are remarkable similarities in that each government has roughly the same managerial role, engaging the same range of power and activated by a common responsibility for the welfare of all their citizens...
...only common ground of the paintings on exhibit is that each was conceived on French soil during this century. Everything from Bonnard's impressionism to mirror-mobiles by Argentinian Julio le Parc can be found in it. Regrettably, in cutting back the show to fit limited gallery space here in Boston, the very most recent works--pop, op, neo-surrealist, have born the brunt of sacrifice. The point of the show, and the point of Paris, is its newness, excitement and freedom. No one has ever accused Boston of the same...
Self-Conscious & Serious. The Class of '68 combines an idealism with a cynicism about society's willingness to embrace their ideals. The graduates do not speak with a common voice but with common candor, sometimes naively and too glibly, often with a deep faith in the perfectibility of man. In their self-conscious seriousness, they seem to be trying to live up to French-Poet Paul Claudel's contention that "youth is not made for pleasure but for heroism." Some of the demanding and perceptive students who best express the special things that their class wants...
Special Taxes. Whatever they finally get, the cost will certainly aggravate French industry's already tight profit squeeze. The workers were largely justified in their demands, since their wages lag behind those in every other Common Market country except Italy. But despite its relatively low payrolls, French industry, plagued by inefficiencies in production and distribution, has yielded slender profit margins. State-owned Renault, for example, earns less than a 1% return on sales, compared with 5% for West Germany's Volkswagen. Compagnie Francaise des Petroles works on a 4.5% profit margin v. 8.6% for Royal Dutch/Shell...
France's payments position stands to get an additional jolt on July 1, when the Common Market is due to abolish all remaining tariffs on trade between member nations. At the same time, the Market is scheduled to introduce uniform external tariffs, which will promptly be reduced in accordance with Kennedy Round agreements. This figures to hurt France, since it presently enjoys some of the highest tariff levels of any of the six Common Market members. Elimination of all tariffs within the Market, meanwhile, will completely open French borders to the goods of such powerful trading partners as West...