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...Dejeuner sur l'Herbe and the formal rupture of the avant-garde from the academy. Giscard demurred. He wanted Orsay to begin in 1830, with Delacroix's Liberty Guiding the People -- which the Louvre flatly refused to release. Back to the drawing board. But then, in 1981 a new Socialist government headed by Francois Mitterrand came in, and Mitterrand let it be known that the 19th century must begin in 1848, the year of populist revolutions and the collapse of monarchies, in which Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto and the grandeur of French bourgeois culture began to move toward...
After last week's election, the government of Chancellor Franz Vranitzky, a Socialist, resigned. Vranitzky, who will now try to form a new government with the People's Party, has vowed to keep the conservative Freedom Party from sharing power in the coalition...
...weeks later, on August 6, in the Kenesset, the Israeli parliament, socialist legislators voted against an anti-racism law that they themselves had proposed earlier. The final version of the law was very different from the original draft. The religious parties forced through a more lenient version because the old text conflicted with parts of the Jewish Law that prohibit marriages between Jews and non-Jews...
...from Philip Larkin's famous lament, "In nineteen sixty-three/ (Which was rather late for me) -- / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ And the Beatles' first LP." It was just in time, however, for Clive James, who arrived in London from Australia in 1962 seeking literary fame, the socialist millennium, bohemian good times and the love of beautiful women, not necessarily in that order. Eventually James would become a successful Fleet Street journalist-critic and a popular panelist on British TV. But for now his ambition was "to take a lowpaying menial job during the day and compose poetic...
...self-proclaimed libertarian socialist cited last spring's bombing of Libya by the U.S. "The American bombing of Libya was totally unprovoked," he said. At the time, the Reagan Administration said that it was retaliating for Libya's alleged bombing of a West German discotheque frequented by American servicemen...