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...cast aside the family expectations and enroll full time in an art studio. He had been frittering away his university career sketching copies of the masters in the Louvre, and had cultivated a special passion for the work of Ingres, the skillful draftsman whose flawless style dominated the fifties' neo-classical vogue...
Though they continue to attract murderous misfits like Fred Cowan, the nation's neo-Nazi organizations have fallen on hard times. The anti-Communist cold war tensions of the '50s and the civil rights clashes of the '60s nourished their sick ideas, but the hate groups have languished since then...
...other words, Chirac is playing with fire. Although by no means a fascist, he has obviously decided to cash in on France's neo-bonapartist tradition of authoritarian appeals and vehement nationalist political drama. Throughout his rally speech, Chirac played on deGaulle's favored theme of "independent nationalism." In a bombastic piece of oratory reminiscent of deGaulle, he called on "free men who want to shape their history with their own hands...
...Restraints. A pragmatic, neo-Keynesian economist. Schultze favors a temporary tax cut of undetermined size to stimulate the economy and help reduce unemployment. Unlike the present head of the CEA. Alan Greenspan, Schultze thinks it is socially disastrous to combat inflation by keeping the lid on the economy and keeping unemployment high, says fellow Economist Arthur Okun. On the other hand, Schultze, no doctrinaire, fully appreciates the dangers of inflation. It was largely his testimony that brought about the drastic revision of the Humphrey-Hawkins bill, which would attack unemployment by making the Government the employer of last resort...
There are shades of Thomas Hardy in the book's cinematic evocation of background and its psychological portrait painting. But, although Alonzo's mysticism may stupefy one at times, his overall tone is seldom as professorial as Hardy's can be. Alonzo's writing approaches a Dadaesque neo-anarchism of spirit while using the vocabulary of surrealism. And these diverse elements, surprisingly, complement each other...