Word: philibert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...churches along the wine route from Dijon to Beaune are open all day and illuminated at night. Vestiges of the mother of medieval abbeys-the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul at Cluny, established in 910?still stand. Cluny, together with the 11th century Church of St. Philibert at Tournus and that acropolis of Middle Ages Christianity, the Basilica at Vézelay, along with Burgundy's 505 other churches, are among Europe's great treasures of romanesque architecture...
Conceived by French Doctor Robert Hugonot and Philosopher Michel Philibert, a Grenoble Office of Aged Persons was established by Socialist Mayor Hubert Dubedout when he took office in 1965. It has since attracted worldwide attention from behavioral scientists and others interested in the emotional as well as the physical well-being of the aged. The program is a particularly useful model for U.S. study. The reason: France has long had a low birth rate and now has a higher percentage of people over 65 than the U.S. (14% compared to 10%). With the recent drop in the U.S. birth rate...
Hugonot and Philibert call their plan "integration of the third age." Its goal, they explain, is to help members of the third age-society's retired citizens-rejoin those of the first and second ages-students and working people. It also seeks to reclaim oldsters in the fourth age-the dependent and handicapped-by making them independent again. The Grenoble concept is quite different from that of age-segregated U.S. retirement villages, which, Hugonot says, "are not a satisfactory solution because they do not integrate old people with other age groups." In Grenoble there is a program of "integrated...
...moment, Hugonot and Philibert are concentrating on re-educating the elderly to think young, but they have ambitious-if still somewhat amorphous-plans for reforming society to make re-education unnecessary. "Today's distribution of periods for education, work and leisure is absurd," Philibert explains. "A child spends 20 years in school, and at the end he never wants to study again. As an adult, he spends 30 years at work, usually doing something that requires no creativity. When he finally retires after this life of stagnation, small wonder that cerebral and physical atrophy set in. Education should...
Even so, the placid, good-humored Malagasy people, an assortment of Malay-Polynesians and Africans, hardly complained until a year ago. Then, a violent revolt in the south against the regime of President Philibert Tsiranana left 800 dead. Tsiranana, an ailing autocrat who had ruled his country since its independence from France in 1960, responded by jailing 500 troublemakers. He also blamed it all on the U.S. embassy and expelled the American ambassador as well as five members of the embassy staff...