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HENRY JAMES, the celebrated literary expatriate of the 19th century, once described America as "a great unendowed, unfurnished, unentertained and unentertaining continent." Paris in the 1920s was mecca for a whole gallery of artistic emigres whom Gertrude Stein labeled the Lost Generation; Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Pound and Cummings led a luminous...
The same is true of the cities on the Continent. Rebuilt or refurbished since World War II, they gleam and they function. Crime is a frequent outrage, but not an epidemic. Police are not loved, but they are not the target of guerrilla warfare. Drug abuse is growing, but it...
André Malraux, the writer and intellectual who served as De Gaulle's Minister of Culture, called him "a man of the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow." Like most crusaders, De Gaulle was extraordinarily farsighted but sometimes, maddeningly, he deliberately seemed to narrow his vision. From...
Foreigners, including France's closest and oldest allies, soon discovered that a strong France was not going to be easy to live with. Postwar developments shaped a close alliance between the Continent and the U.S., but De Gaulle wanted to organize a "Europe of fatherlands" that would look East...
From the Top. What's to be done? Nothing in the mass. Individuals, small groups or communities must "nibble at the edges of the power structure by breaking down routine and defying regulations." Individuals must summon the courage to renounce the bribe of the welfare state and demand more...