https://freerepublic.com/tag/socialistfailure/ en-us Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:30:40 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085224/posts It’s the best part of two decades since Denys Arcand gave us The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire, a very Quebecois gloss on The Big Chill about a group of boozy, bed-hopping, bantering boomers connected one way or another to a university history department. They were in their prime, though they did not fully realize it. Eighteen years on, one of their number is now facing the biggest chill: death. In his mid-50s, Remy (Remy Girard), a self-described “sensual socialist”, is perforce heavy on the latter and lighter than he’d wish on the former. He’s no longer banging... The Spectator [UK] https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085224/posts#comment Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:30:40 GMT