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Washington tried to play down any sense of urgency about the Secretary's trip. His visits to Israel and Egypt were merely, in the polysyllabism of State Department Spokesman George S. Vest, "a supporting, catalytic adjunct" to the Geneva talks. But a Kissinger aide described the perils of personal diplomacy in words that were more germane: "The style and inclination of the man is to go and do it himself. But once you have sent the biggest aspidistra of them all, you are out of aspidistras...
...came to Southeast Asia. The Vietnamese resisted, but the French seized the southern third of Vietnam in 1864 and extended their control to the center and north by 1885. By the turn of the century, Vietnam was firmly under French control; the imperial court was tolerated merely as an adjunct to the French administration...
President Bok last week appointed a seven-member committee to begin developing plans for the Institute, which was initially envisioned as an adjunct to the Afro-American Studies Department...
Leonard's letter was addressed to Arthur Hertzberg, president of the American Jewish Congress and AJC Adjunct Professor of History at Columbia. The AJC was one of six Jewish groups that complained to the Office for Civil Rights about the HEW affirmative action program last weekend...
...great strain on two of the fastest-dwindling resources of the times: patience and attention span. Sadness, a new collection of stories again finds Barthelme at home with the malaise, detachment and emotional jaundice of the sophisticated, urban middle class. In The Party, King Kong, introduced as an adjunct professor of art history at Rutgers, enters and "all of the guests uttered loud exclamations of fatigue and disgust, examining the situation in the light of their own needs..." Poor old psychoanalysis gets its lumps again in The Sandman. The lover of the analysand writes a very convincing letter...