Word: modernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with jet-setters and peasants alike, a ubiquitous cigarette dangling off-center on his lower lip. De Gaulle liked best the France of the history books. Pompidou lives each day as it comes, reveling in the hurly-burly of politics and high finance, equally at ease in galleries of modern art, in a Riviera nightclub or behind a university lectern...
...evidence of that attitude is almost everywhere. The France of sunny sidewalk cafés and smoky boîtes is now, also, the France of 536 Wimpy hamburger mills, dizzy discothéques and monumental traffic jams. Vacationers on the Côte d'Azur looking for bargain accommodations now stop at modern motels as well as at the traditional spartan pensions...
Those who stay on to work the farms have adopted modern methods and equipment that would have astonished the peasant farmer of only a few years ago. Last week the farmers of Brittany flocked to their provincial capital of Rennes for its 44th annual fair, France's largest agricultural exposition. Some 1,200 exhibitors from 21 nations displayed their wares at the pennant-draped fairgrounds, and they included large industrial concerns as well as producers of fertilizer and farm machinery. Among the fair visitors was U.S. Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, who also toured a Breton farm and then dropped...
...change in France, essentially, is from small to large, from individual to mass, from the charm of the village and the quartier to the noisy uniformity of the modern city. It is not a pleasant transition, but it is nonetheless inevitable. It is also a transition that De Gaulle did not understand, could not cope with and refused to abet. It made him, in a sense, no longer pertinent...
...Evelyn Waugh, Wolfe stuffed in the vitality of a Rabelais. As they have developed, however, Wolfe's essays have taken on a more structured approach (and he is now working on a reportorial novel), but he will always remain the great journalist of kitsch. He is the chronicler of modern America's myths, and myths have a tendency to go berserk--even as they are being told...