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...undercurrent of these quarrels is a yearning for a new national myth, a sense of grandeur and destiny. As author Barzini points out, it was Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, the great Romantic writer, who said of his compatriots, "They must be led by dreams." De Gaulle, after founding the Fifth Republic in 1958 and establishing a presidential form of government verging on monarchy, set France apart from NATO, apart from "the Anglo-Saxons" -- conveniently lumping in superpower America with France's ancient enemy, England -- and even, in important ways, apart from Europe...
...Most Americans were never beguiled by visions of a new world order and are more grateful for what was actually won than embittered by the failure to obtain what was never achievable. "We want so badly to be proud of our nation and ourselves," says Gil Rene, whose wife Denise was called to the gulf last October by her reserve unit three days after their wedding. "Well, it's over now," Rene adds. "We got the job done, all right? Let's move on. It didn't change the world, or world politics. It didn't change anything. They...
...Rene E. Rojas '94 said he hopes disciplinary action will be taken. "I think it's disgusting and I don't think [the vandals] belong here," he said...
...soccer players -- heraldic yet energetic blocks of primary color, moving on the floodlit field of the Parc des Princes outside Paris -- for they are the summa of his love of the physical. "On grass that is either red or blue," he wrote to his friend the poet Rene Char, "there whirls a ton of muscle in complete disregard for self with, against all sensibilities, a great sense of presence. What...
Lucas and Rene focus on the human side of AIDS: the inability of good friends to know how to react properly to the illness, the changes in everyday life caused by fear and management of the virus and, of course, the virus' enormous impact on personal relationships and social behavior. The talented group of male actors convey their own special reactions to AIDS, and they create a mood of comaraderie and intimacy that is touching but not overly sentimental...