Word: socialistic
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...monarch, he had not yet "shook off the regal thoughts wherewith I reign'd." Seated at a desk in solitary grandeur in a leather-bound chair in an otherwise unfurnished room, Giscard spoke of "the end of great hopes" brought about by the election two weeks ago of Socialist François Mitterrand. At the same time, he pledged that he would always be at his "country's disposal," presumably in case the electorate should one day decide to oust the usurper. Giscard ended his address with an emotional invocation: "In these difficult times, when evil prowls...
...also reveres Balzac, Emile Zola, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Nobel-prizewinning French poet Saint-John Perse. He came to Marx late and has never read him in his entirety. Several years ago, at a summer cultural festival in Avignon, he remarked, "The day when there will be a socialist art, I will no longer be a socialist...
Though he does not enjoy the Paris cocktail-party circuit, Mitterrand likes to dine with such old Socialist comrades as Claude Estier, Louis Mermaz and Pierre Joxe. Other close friends include a businessman from his native region and the owner of a taxi fleet. He is seen from time to time in Left Bank restaurants with one or another of the attractive young women whose company he enjoys. But he is also a family man who spends most weekends with his wife, visiting friends or staying in his converted sheep barn in southwestern France...
...Europe's political leaders have been fairly warned. If there is any discernible mood sweeping the Continent, it is an indiscriminate, throw-the-rascals-out rejection of the status quo. On the same day that Valéry Discard d'Estaing was losing the French presidency to Socialist François Mitterrand, West Berlin voters were giving a similar demonstration of discontent with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democrats, who had ruled the divided city for 26 years. Tainted by corruption, the city's Social Democratic Party polled a meager 38.4%, its worst postwar...
...springtime"-or summer, or fall. Reason: the dollar is back in grace. The exchange rate has improved 31% since a year ago, making U.S. purchasing power greater than it has been since 1969; and last week's election victory by François Mitterrand's Socialist Party gave the rate another jolt by further weakening the franc (see WORLD). Tourists have been quick to capitalize on the change. Despite stiff increases in transatlantic airfares, advance bookings from New York City to Paris...