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...P.C.F. was almost destroyed in 1939 following its knee-jerk endorsement of the Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact. The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 quickly changed that, and many Communists, like 1969 Presidential Candidate Jacques Duclos, were a key force in the French Resistance. The party was thus strong enough to earn a place in Charles de Gaulle's first postwar Cabinet-the first and only time that the P.C.F. has taken part in the French government...
Reactions to the shift in mood have thus far fallen along predictable ideological lines, with knee-jerk diatribes or celebrations the general rule. Robert Kuttner, former chief investigator for the Senate Banking Committee and currently editor of Working Papers magazine, has taken the first reflective and analytical examination of the subject in his book, Revolt of the Haves. Though he begins with the difficult but crucial step of acknowledging that something is wrong with the current incarnations of the Great Society, Kuttner does not suggest government abandon the cause of social justice to the free market. Kuttner proposes no liberal...
...went off to college, eventually founding a Nebraska radio station. She married the local soda jerk, who eventually became Vice President. Then, in 1979, shortly after the death of his wife, Max Brown, 68, decided to write a letter to his former Huron (S. Dak.) High School classmate. Muriel Humphrey, Hubert's widow, also 68, quickly responded, and Max ventured to ask her out to lunch. Eighteen months later -and a week before Valentine's Day-the two were quietly married. Her four children and ten grandchildren and his two children and five grandchildren attended the ceremony...
...with modernism, only more so, because we are much closer to it. Its reflexes still jerk, the severed limbs twitch; the parts are still there, but they no longer connect or function as a live whole. The modernist achievement will continue to affect culture for another century at least, because it was large, so imposing and so irrefutably convincing. But its dynamic is gone, and our relationship to it is becoming archaeological. Picasso is no longer a contemporary, or a father figure; he is a remote ancestor, who can inspire admiration but not opposition. The age of the New, like...
...intermediary with Iran. Algeria is an Islamic state with a revolutionary tradition; its three envoys all played key roles in their country's war for independence from France, which ended in 1962. Since then, Algeria has aided numerous Third World liberation causes. "The Algerians have an almost knee-jerk reaction in favor of anything that calls itself revolutionary," says a Western diplomat in Algiers. "There are some 75 revolutionary or liberation movements with offices here...