Word: debrayism
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...surprisingly, Pivot's status as literary czar has fostered some resentment. In 1982 Writer Regis Debray, then an aide to President Mitterrand, denounced Pivot, accusing him of exercising a "virtual dictatorship over publishing markets." The public outcry over Debray's criticism was so strong that Mitterrand quickly endorsed Pivot, forcing Debray to beat a hasty retreat...
...more than a dozen or two people with a catchy name and a talent for publicity. Their methods are crude. They are the sort of people that Karl Marx would have contemptuously dismissed as senseless anarchists. Many California radicals follow the teachings of Mao, Che Guevara, French Revolutionary Regis Debray and Carlos Marighella, the Brazilian terrorist tactician. Marighella advocates violence as a way to encourage government authorities to overreact. He theorizes that a government will inevitably impose harshly repressive measures that will "radicalize" nonviolent citizens and thus bring on the revolution...
...Rome and Paris. A bomb threat at the Louvre, the first in the museum's history, sent police hunting through hundreds of Egyptian sarcophagi and Oriental vases. Early last week a delegation of French artists and intellectuals-among them Actor Yves Montand and Leftist Author Régis Debray-flew to Madrid to protest the sentences. They were quickly expelled. Official notes of protest were issued by the European Economic Community and United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. Even Pope Paul VI issued a personal plea for clemency...
...first met Patty. By last December, the two were engaged, and he had enrolled at Berkeley. Since Patty's kidnaping, Weed has deeply involved himself in the attempt to free her. On April 7, reported New Times, he secretly flew to Mexico City to visit French Marxist Regis Debray, who was one of the original Tania's closest friends. At Weed's behest, Debray wrote Patty a letter that said in part: "I ask you only to assure me that you have consciously and freely chosen to take the name and follow the example of Tania...
...year-old Boy Scout" who yearned for a revolutionary glory that was never to be his. The emotional high point of his career as a leftist came in 1967, when he was thrown into a Bolivian jail while attending the trial of Marxist Theorist Regis Debray. Feltrinelli later wrote an article about "my prison"; in fact, he had spent only eight hours in jail...