Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...village is also losing its sense of history. As in most small French villages, history is everywhere in Moras En Valloire. Julius Caesar named the town when he and his army camped there one night in 58 B.C., and a huge manmade hill just above the town marks the burial site of an ancient Celtic hero. A large 11th century feudal castle had loomed over the village until Cardinal Richelieu ordered the castle destroyed in 1627, but its crumbling stone walls still linger...
...they forsake their heritage, they seek a substitute culture from America. Blue jeans (preferably American-made, even at $40 a pair) grace the derriere of virtually every French tennager. Far more American university t-shirts are seen in French villages than in American towns. American TV shows, very popular in France, give French teenagers new ideas about how to act and what to think. One day as I walked down the village's main street, a 10-year-old boy flashed me the thumbs-up sign and groaned, "Ayyyyyyyyy," a perfect imitation of his new hero, "the Fonz." American culture...
DIED. Andre Laguerre, 63, bold, stimulating managing editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED for 14 years (1960-74); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The London-born son of a French diplomat, Laguerre grew up in San Francisco, was drafted into the French army during World War II at the age of 24, was among the last soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk and served as General Charles de Gaulle's press attaché before joining TIME in 1946 as a foreign correspondent. In 1951 he worked on the personal staff of Editor in Chief Henry Luce. Five years later Laguerre...
Logic is the perfect vacuum, admitting no impurities but capable of breeding absurdities. A Nazi war criminal sets himself up as Louis XVI in the wilds of South America where he decrees German to be French and Argentina to be imperial Spain. A Huxleian world in which sexual indulgence has resulted in a "genitocracy" is suddenly cooled off by Nosex, a drug that turns lovemaking into drudgery. Sex as a recreation and mainstay of the economy is replaced by eating, with its own pornography and taboos. People who eat fruit while kneeling, for example, are branded perverts...
Perhaps such significant shading is one reason why Le Monde's Middle East veteran, Eric Rouleau, reflects that U.S. journalism got trapped in clichés about "the progressive Shah" beset by "fanatic religionists." But when it comes to nationalism, how about the French? They allowed Ayatullah Khomeini a sanctuary they rarely grant other political exiles to campaign for the Shah's overthrow. Rouleau speculates that the French, miffed by being shut out of Iran's arms deals, "took a calculated bet that it wasn't a bad idea to be host...