May ’68
May 10, 2008, 8:59 am
Posted by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels
About 10,000 feet below the posting of Veni…., Joe K. asked about historic times; I briefly mentioned May ’68; but here in today’s Times is a fuller account. Seems like only yesterday.
40 Years Later, an Uprising in Paris Is Still a Puzzle
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/us/10beliefs.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Peter+Steinfels&st=nyt&oref=slogin
The better to practice “lectio,” as Cardinal Martini recommends:
http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=10811
P.S. Was the thesis saved?
As one who was there in Paris, I can say it was not much of a revolution. The students at the Sorbonne and other universities and the Grandes Ecoles were and are a highly privileged group. There was much in the rebellion that resembled a panty raid.
Came the weekend and the rebellion was over. The French system continues much as before, with les ecoliens still providing much of the managerial class.
Gabriel Austin: Were you the guy in the double-breasted suit with a fedora taking pictures with a brownie camera?