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...scientist, Dr. Rostand naturally holds aloof from moral implications-but as a Frenchman, he is sure that, once parthenogenesis is possible, some women will want to try it. And that really scares him: "It is thus inevitable that a new kind of human being (according to our present knowledge they will all be girls) -will appear in society, and will be aware of their extraordinary origin . . . Realization of the fact that the male has ceased to be necessary for propagation will not fail to exercise a profound effect on the relations between man and woman...
History's mantle sat lightly last week on the shoulders of the cheery-cheeked Frenchman as he sat breakfasting in the garden in his dressing gown, eating honey and yoghurt. Six nations this week crowned him a civilian Mr. Europe. They made him first president of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (Schuman Plan). The Schuman Plan is rightly named for Foreign Minister Schuman, who alone among Frenchmen had the moral authority to propose it successfully to Europe (TIME, March 1, 1948). But it was Jean Monnet who conceived the plan and did the behind...
...member nations as president of the nine-man High Authority that will set the Community up in business. First, he expects to work out a mutually profitable liaison with the only major European coal & steel producer not included in the Community: Britain. "I know the British," chuckles Monnet. "No Frenchman is more ready than I to establish cooperation with them. But I want real cooperation...
...political thought and the institutions of this nation. To use a great word that sums up everything, for the first time in my life I breathe in a climate of legitimacy. Here, it is evident that democracy is legitimate, that is, it springs from an undefiled source. For a Frenchman, it is an immense surprise and a deliverance to feel...
...festival was planned to include at least one composition from each nation in good standing, so that delegates heard representative new music from each nation, if not always the best music newly written. Critics felt the difference, deplored the festival's lack of a "genius," but pronounced Frenchman Jean Martinon's String Quartet, Op. 43 first-rate, Englishman Humphrey Searle's Poem for 22 Strings pretty good. Festival shocker: Le Soleil des Eaux, a surrealistic, twelve-tone composition for soprano, tenor, bass and orchestra by the current bad boy of French music, Pierre Boulez, 27. It puzzled...