Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRENCH, by François Nourissier, THE AMERICAN CHALLENGE, by J.J. Servan-Schreiber. Two perceptive and plain-spoken Frenchmen examine ailing France and the cantankerous French spirit and reach the same conclusion: unless attitudes change and institutions are revitalized, a debacle is certain...
...Kahn points out, mean "agonizing compromises on both sides" before any settlement can be reached. Not all the basic goals of either U.S. or North Vietnamese policy are likely to survive a genuine settlement. Furthermore, the nature of the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia has undergone considerable change, as French Political Scientist Raymond Aron has astutely pointed out. Initially, the issue in Viet Nam was blunt, says Aron: "Either the Viet Cong will rule in Saigon tomorrow or they won't." But, he adds, "Fortunately, diplomacy can, under certain circumstances, outwit logic." As the war has progressed, the struggle...
Still, Ojukwu's regime had some reason to take heart, even though the federal vise was tightening: in the midst of the renewed fighting it received an unexpected boost from President Charles de Gaulle. In a communiqué, the French government declared that the conflict should be settled "on the basis of the right of peoples to govern themselves"-the first such commitment favoring Biafra by a European nation. "This strengthens our hand at Addis," exclaimed Biafran Information Minister Ifegwu Eke. "And if the talks break down, our African friends will be prepared to take the issue...
...Days" of the Sorbonne revolt, a greying, middle-aged man descended from his Left Bank attic flat and ambled over to the student-occupied Théátre de L'Odéon. There he listened with amused interest as youthful nihilists denounced the entire span of French history as irrelevant. Their harsh judgment did not surprise him. In five slim volumes of pel lucid, painfully distilled essays, Rumanian-born Philosopher E. M. Cioran, 57, has argued the terrible futility of human history. More originally than any other living thinker, he has defined the case for total pessimism. "Human...
...unfilmed past which set up the plot premise provide an idea both of Chabrol's pragmatism and the point at which his imagination begins to make connections and build strange relationships between the characters: Paul is the legitimate heir to the Wagner champagne firm, an old and fabulously respected French wine. His father was swindled out of ownership by a man whose daughter Christine (Yvonne Furneaux) now runs the company. Paul has only rights to the name Wagner, this preventing Christine from selling the company to crass American industrialists who won't buy the firm without its famous trademark. Paul...