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...collected songs add up to a painful diagnosis of the chill of modern life, and in France that makes Léo Ferré a kind of poet laureate. He hates, among other things, the church, most governments, radio, television and the Academic Franchise, and he hates them with the droll expertise Frenchmen instinctively admire. In a country that nourishes the cult of the dinner-table anarchist, Ferre is almost a government in exile...
Tough Ideas. Ferré has such melodic facility that his songs can drift from one mode to another without the slightest misstep: a melody will slip into passages that suggest fado or flamenco or Orthodox church music, then emerge again for a major-key resolution. Ferré has written some lovely love songs, but most of his ideas are tough, and he does not mince words-as in Monsieur Tout-Blanc, his pre-Deputy attack on the Pope...
Operation Madeleine. Ferré's songs evoke a complex feeling. Their mood is an absorbing compromise between optimism and disgust, and they have an ironic strength that makes their message as clear as a scream in the street. Though Ferré is a natural-born plaintiff, his songs never argue that life is absurd. "Despair," he says, "is a way of hiding things from one's self." Life is not pointless, just outrageously wrong...
Even some progressive churchmen agree that evangelical Christianity represents a step toward maturity of the conservative impulse. "Conservative Christianity is growing by trying to become respectable," says Dr. Nels Ferré of the liberal Andover Newton Theological School, and he credits it with seeking "an intelligent evangelical faith. The conservative movement is neither an obscurantist fundamentalism nor a negative modernism-and it is making inroads everywhere...
...Ferreé brothers' fondest hope is that their sons-there are four of them-will some day run the family businesses not from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico but from the 51st state of the U.S. Statehood for Puerto Rico would more than double the corporate tax bill that the Ferrés pay under the Commonwealth, but they argue that it would attract many new industries and set off a new Puerto Rican boom by removing any danger that the island may some day be caught up in Caribbean turmoil. Says Luis Ferré: "If you can sell...