Word: taking
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Until recently, Giscard was able to stay regally above the political fray, letting Barre run the country on a day-to-day basis and, conveniently, leaving him to take the heat for unpopular decisions. But now, says Jeanne Labrousse, director of the polling institute I.F.O.P.: "We have reached the point where discontent is so high that Barre cannot absorb it all himself." According to Jacques Attali, a leading Socialist economist, the reason is that Giscard and Barre can no longer promise light at the end of the austerity tunnel. Says Attali: "The French are losing hope." According to a survey...
...prince I disdain. I am Rohan." This sublimely arrogant ancien régime motto suggests Bruce's transactions with the artists he knew in Paris. The main influences on him were Cézanne and, above all, Matisse (Bruce once lent Picasso money, but refused to take his art seriously: it was too showy and volatile for him.) His homages to Matisse never ended. Matisse's insistence on achieving structure through local color contrast lies behind Bruce's post-cubist compositions of 1916, in which he tried, not altogether successfully, to fuse color with the implied movement...
...Roman Catholics take stock of John Paul's tough messages...
...degrees under Vatican authority, is also troubling. This last decree affects departments in only eight U.S. institutions, but could foreshadow church-wide rules in a forthcoming code of canon law. The document requires that the Vatican approve or disapprove the orthodoxy of tenured professors, and urges local bishops to take any doctrinal complaints to the Vatican if the schools themselves...
...number of U.S. dioceses and parishes do quietly permit remarried Catholics to receive Communion, but official policy remains against it. Regarding the related matter of annulments, John Paul is reported to take a dim view of those now granted in the U.S. on markedly liberal grounds...