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...Socialist era has brought to the fore a new generation of personalities, like Christine Ockrent, 39, the clear-eyed and bob-haired anchorwoman on the evening news for Antenne 2. Ockrent, who has the added allure of having previously worked for CBS, is not a Socialist. But she epitomizes, if anybody does, what one woman writer accurately calls the Socialist ideal of the contemporary Frenchwoman: independent, progressive and athletic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Confrontations with Reality | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

Though she rejects "the joyful solidarity of the soulless," she has nowhere to turn, she is overwhelmed by the awful, non-personal intimacy of her aggressively vulgar mother Drawn to Tomas, she has become weak, for "True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power." If it is true that experience is light, it is also true that love, seen by the lights of the intellect, shrinks away to almost nothing to be certain that it is love she feels, Tereza can only love what is unable...

Author: By John P. Oconnor, | Title: The Brilliant Irony of Levity | 4/13/1984 | See Source »

...however, Mitterrand received high marks from the others, including Thatcher. During the two months before the Brussels meeting, he had flown to each of the nine capitals and met with Thatcher twice. He pledged last week to renew his shuttle diplomacy, since he hopes to strike a compromise be fore the next summit in June, when his term as chairman expires. "Europe of the Ten is not dead," he declared at the end of the Brussels meeting. "It has suffered a further blow, but the situation is not desperate. We'll be pressing on." It is the same determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Hail the Beleaguered Hero | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...book, flipping open page by page. Page 1: a close-up shot of a youthful-looking Hart in a coat and tie speaking directly into the camera. "The politicians of yesterday are trading our future by asking our price instead of challenging our idealism." Page 2: Hart framed from fore head to chin by the television screen. "My candidacy is for those who still dream dreams . . . who will stand together once more to build an American future." Intones an unseen narrator: "Gary Hart ... a new generation of leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Video Games | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...these developments have brought to the fore controversy surrounding the principles, which were first developed in 1977 and since refined by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a Philadelphia minister and board member of the GM company. The general intent behind the principles is to help Black South Africans economically by making sure companies follow certain fair-labor practices...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Reforming From Within? | 3/1/1984 | See Source »

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