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...violently tear it down. They will, so they say, respect civil rights and freedom of the press while bringing about a more equitable distribution of wealth. Some Western European reformers even envisage allowing political opposition. It is a notion that outrages orthodox Communists, who insist above all on the paramount control of the party...
...parties and established bureaucracy, and the new demands for participation by the poor and the powerless. There will be constant requests, predicts Westin, for the court to referee. If it refuses, he says, there will be "a decade unsurpassed in violence." Beyond that, there will be, without question, a paramount need to provide a legal framework to curb an overweening technology, which even today threatens to destroy both man and his works...
Foreign policy questions were not paramount in De Gaulle's defeat. Obviously, though, not even the strongest successor will have the stature at home or abroad to perpetuate the haughty independence that was De Gaulle's personal panache. French policy on the Common Market and defense may change simply because it has to, because French leadership after De Gaulle probably will not be strong enough to make continued defiance of France's neighbors stick. Sooner or later, West Germany, which can already claim greater prosperity and a sounder currency than France, will assume more influence. Even divided...
Please Come. Or are they? Stanley Kramer, whose films have won nearly 100 nominations, admits: "Frankly, the people in the Academy don't know what the hell they're voting for. Not any more than a clothing salesman from Dayton, Ohio." Paramount's production chief Robert Evans concurs: "There are people in the Academy who haven't worked in years. How can they know what the industry is about anymore?" Perhaps Joseph Mankiewicz is correct when he says: "A film academy that includes financiers and publicity men and does not include Fellini, Bergman and Truffaut...
...ejection of the Deans and by the rifling of files and the publication of their contents. The immediate removal of the group was justified; moreover, the character of the seizure overrode any obligation the administration might otherwise have had to make the civility of the removal their paramount concern...