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...more trenchant than the text they accompany, and for Levine this has led to many an outside commission, including covers for TIME, Newsweek and New York. But his col league Grandville is a special case. He has been dead for over a hundred years. And besides, he was a Frenchman...
Servan-Schreiber's work will naturally seem less revolutionary to Americans than to Europeans, from whom it demands, among other things, "a minimum of federalism." But it may come as a pleasant surprise for U.S. readers to see themselves, as at least one admiring Frenchman does, as a civili- zation whose "secret lies in the confidence of the society in its citizens." This confidence, says Servan-Schreiber. is manifested in such commonplace U.S. practices as continual reeducation of both executive and worker and in the delegation of responsibility that tries to "liberate initiative at every level." Europeans, he clearly says...
...superb politician, De Gaulle formulated the strategy that he thought would win-and it did. He sought to polarize the French electorate, forcing the moderate voters away from the left and into the Gaullist ranks. Toward that end, the Gaullists capitalized on the average Frenchman's fear of chaos by showing special films that depicted the rampaging mobs and wanton destruction in Paris' Left Bank riots. Much of what the Gaullists said and showed was true enough. France had indeed been on the verge of a breakdown, and if De Gaulle had stepped aside instead of asserting...
...French are rarely consistent, but they are usually logical-in their fashion. From the lycée onward, millions of Frenchmen are exposed to the classic symmetrical syllogisms of cartesian logic; as a result, a Frenchman tends to dismiss whatever he disagrees with not because it is intrinsically wrong but because it seems wrongly reasoned. "C'est pas logique."-roughly, "No one in his right mind would think like that"-is a favorite saying. To the vast numbers of middle-aged who feared continued social upheavals, to the little old ladies in black who considered the old ways best...
Blue-Eyed Soul. Does this mean that white musicians by definition don't have soul? A very few Negroes will concede that such white singers as Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee have it, and Aretha also nominates Frenchman Charles Aznavour. A few more will accept such blues-oriented whites as the Righteous Brothers, Paul Butterfield, and England's Stevie Winwood?largely because their sound is almost indistinguishable from Negro performers'. But for the most part, Negroes leave it up to whites to defend the idea of "blue-eyed soul," whether by the criterion of talent, experience or temperament. Janis Joplin...