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...much of the past decade, though, Boulez, 56, has been absorbed in his work as director of IRCAM-the Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/ Musique. The institute, part of the Pompidou arts center in Paris, is devoted to research and collaboration between scientists and musicians. It is here, on the front lines of music's progressivist movement, that Boulez for the first time in his career has turned to modern computer technology to produce his newest work Répons (response...
...Pompidou Center documents a drama of cultural history...
...Paris-Paris," which fills a floor of the Pompidou Center in Paris until Nov. 2, is-so to speak-the fourth panel of a triptych. When "le Pompidoglio" opened in 1977, it started a series of exhibitions meant to show, in detail, how the capital cities of modernism had reacted to one another in our century. These were "Paris-New York" (1977), "Paris-Berlin" (1978) and "Paris-Moscow" (1979). The emphasis would be on painting and sculpture, but other wells of memory were also tapped-period rooms, reconstructions, photos, slide displays and documents. In the archaeology of the recently vanished...
...most illustrious is the Ecole Normale Supérieure, which was founded in 1794 to "teach morals and shape the hearts of young republicans for the practice of private and public virtue." Only some 400 students a year are accepted. Among its graduates: Louis Pasteur, Jean-Paul Sartre, Georges Pompidou. Prior to World War II the school also produced such socialist luminaries as Jean Jaures and Léon Blum...
Another voter concern focuses on the power he has accumulated during his term. Few disagree that he has concentrated presidential authority to a greater degree than either De Gaulle or Georges Pompidou, his two Fifth Republic predecessors. "France is governed by an elected sovereign, a republican monarch, almost an enlightened despot " writes French Journalist Alain Duhamel [Giscard] is at the same time the Queen of England and Her Majesty's Prime Minister...