Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retirement of that exceptional man has forced Frenchmen to examine their problems-economic, social and cultural-in a new and often unflattering light. They have found that De Gaulle's visions, however enchantingly phrased, obscured some serious shortcomings. As a result, the nation feels suddenly, and uncomfortably, second-rate. "Mediocrity," says a young Gaullist deputy, "can be enriching, even enjoyable, but mediocre nevertheless...
...vote in the referendum that forced De Gaulle's exit. With this astounding rebuke from middle-class France to De Gaulle still fresh in his mind, and with immediate problems of economic solvency that must be dealt with, Pompidou may be forced to delay efforts to produce real social reform for some time...
...Even for the privileged, the feeling of social claustrophobia is tightened by a system of conscription which makes the campus a draft haven and which distorts career choices in an effort to avoid service in a war nobody wants to fight. The deep misgivings about the war, compounded by the immorality of using an inequitable draft to fight it, generate a bitter skepticism of the values which motivate all established authority...
Most of the new coeds of both sexes share the sentiment of Al Gladstone, a senior 'from Trinity at Smith: "I came to get out of the weekend social life. I was fed up with the hypocrisy of that way of treating people." Academic reasons count too. Senior Roger Faix, for example, insists that he was lured away from Dartmouth by Smith's biology department. "I guess you could say I came to Smith to study hormones," he explains...
Died. The Most. Rev. Bernard Sheil, 83, Roman Catholic crusader for social and civil rights (see RELIGION...