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Lancelot's sexual cosmology has a curious logic which he later applies to all history including his own. But it includes a view of women that harks back to the era of courtly love, "It is no longer possible to 'fall in love'," he says early on, "But in the future and with the New Woman it will be." His focus is too narrow: he conceives of the New Woman rather than a New Voice, or a New Person. About the position of women in his future utopia he sounds suspiciously like Stokely Carmichael...
...Curious Fatalism. Wherever he turns these days, Giscard seems to encounter hostility. True, he can count on the loyalty of Barre, whose down-to-earth, schoolmaster image has won a surprising amount of popularity. But Barre is essentially a technocrat without any political base. Now Barre has been given an unenviable mission in attempting to win back the voters lost to the left, partly because of the government's economic policies. The pattern of the municipal elections showed that the leftist opposition gained most in those regions where unemployment was high. As inflation gains once more among France...
Barre must also confront the curious fatalism that has developed among the French about the prospect of a Socialist government with Communist members. It is an adventure that no longer frightens many of them. Even some businessmen who once recoiled in horror at the idea seem resigned to living with it. It is Barre's job to help Giscard convince Frenchmen otherwise, because so far they have not been impressed by Giscard alone...
...every woman in Tunisia is so tradition-bound. In the cities younger women in jeans often stroll together or with boys. As lively and curious as their male peers, they are not shy or afraid of speaking to foreigners. The wealthier and more educated ones especially move about with relative freedom and premarital sex is common among them. But even they are far more restricted than their Western counterparts. One well-to-do, college-educated single woman in her twenties told me of the scandal she caused in trying to procure an apartment...
...tale scored with lightness and quick invention. The orchestration confirms accounts of Glinka's thorough knowledge of Mozart and Rossini. His inclusion of Russian folk music, Turkish airs, even the whole-tone scale from the Orient (more than half a century before Debussy) suggests that he was exceptionally curious and open-minded...