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...What we are witnessing," says a French Jesuit philosopher, Father Georges Morel, "is the decadence of a culture that was too rich and too critical." Father Morel finds, for example, that "the ideal of a total view of life is finished" among French intellectuals. "All experience can be interpreted from a thousand points, each equally valid," he says. "In literature, this is expressed in a greater interest in the material, the linguistic texture, than in the thought content." Literary Critic Maurice Nadeau finds, furthermore, that many young novelists are simply "popularizing or dramatizing the linguistic and sociological findings" of such...
...littlest Ford Continental, Alessandro Ford Uzielli, 18 months, woggled into international view for the first time at Paris' Orly Airport in the velvety clutches of Mother Anne Ford Uzielli, 25, and Aunt Charlotte Ford Niarchos, 27. Tiny Alex roundly ignored eager photographers, but perked up later at Grandma's house: Mme. Sybil Billotte's 14-room estate in suburban Senlis. The tyke and his doting entourage (including nanny, two bodyguards and chauffeur) then motored to Brussels, where he and Auntie Charlotte hopped a plane to New York, the last leg of his jet-set journey...
...that they were not seeking to challenge the rightful authority of bishops, but some conflict with the hierarchy seems inevitable. Though most U.S. prelates have welcomed priests' councils in their home dioceses, none of the six bishops invited to the convention even sent his regrets. Rome seems to view the federation with some foreboding. "We are in sympathy with the priests' wishes," said a Vatican official, "but it would be a disruptive element within the church if all groups were permitted to establish national movements and then bring pressure on the church as a whole...
Find a good bench, from which to view...
Some children, especially if they are handicapped or are older than one year, are rejected by adoptive parents at their first direct meeting. To minimize such disturbing experiences, agencies often give couples their first view of the child through one-way mirrors or arrange "accidental" meetings in the park. These devices assume that the parents and child live in the same area, and even then are by no means surefire: many a ccuple, emotionally on edge, blurt the accidental-meeting game away in the first sentence...