Word: socialistic
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...made no mention at all of Israel's experiment in social democracy, which has certainly played a major role in successfully reshaping Jewish society in its country. The kibbutz, Israel's collective farm, is perhaps the most original and certainly the most successful working model of a socialist idea...
...same," as Political Scientist Jean Chariot described the situation last week. Although the center-right coalition won an unexpected 91-seat majority in the 491-member National Assembly (291, v. 200), the balance of forces between the center-right and the left did not shift dramatically. Yet the Socialist-Communist alliance that had almost wrested the presidency from Giscard in 1974 and made stunning gains in the local elections in 1976 and 1977 now lay in ruins. The left's Common Program, calling for inflationary spending for social benefits and widespread nationalization of French industry, was headed...
...last week, Giscard made his first conciliatory move toward the left. Looking relaxed and confident, he extended an open hand. "I am addressing myself to those who voted for the opposition; it was your right. But you should know that for the President of the republic, those who voted Socialist or Communist are as French as anyone else-equal members of a national community." Deploring the "excessive division of the country," he pledged to bring leftists "on the sidelines" into active participation in the government. In a Gallic turn of phrase that may prove historic, Giscard declared: "It is time...
Next day Giscard took steps to bring some strange bedfellows into the Elysée Palace. He issued invitations to Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais and Socialist Leader François Mitterrand-top leftists who have not been inside the presidential palace since Giscard's election. They both agreed to come for consultations, as did Left Radical President Robert Fabre. Leading the rush to the Elysée were the heads of some of France's biggest trade unions, who had also been invited. They included André Bergeron of the 850,000-member Force Ouvri...
...wants TV shows about blacks to turn into the stolidly heroic tableaux of socialist realism. The problem, says Michael Dann, a TV consultant and former head of programming at CBS, lies partly in the nature of drama and comedy. In dramatic series, good, responsible characters can be developed and portrayed by blacks, intermixing them with whites; in comedies, the producers are highly tempted merely to satirize black family life, exaggerating and distorting it. Every harassed, desiccated TV writer knows how to get a laugh with a bellowed insult or ostentatiously jivy dialect...