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His 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...
Ever since he began singing in the caves around St. Germain-des-Prés in the late '40s, Ferre has been the reigning voice of the "Defenders of French Song," a tight little school of contemporary troubadour-poets. He despises literary snobbery, and the lyrics of his 200...
Poor France-it is blessed with three immense schools of popular songwriters. There is the rock-twist crowd, which follows the spiritual guidance of Elvis Presley. Chubby Checker and a Gallic hero named Johnny Hallyday. and spawns an army of combos with names like Les Chats Sauvages. There are "The...
The 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...
Puerto Rico's Statehood Republican Party provides the only effective opposition there is to Mufioz' Popular Democratic Party. In the 1960 election for Governor, the Republican candidate, Luis Ferre, drew only 252,364 votes to Munoz' 457,880. But the Republicans believe that their statehood cause has...