Word: barriere
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Just examines the now familiar ambiguities of the war with detail that is not often found in books of this kind. The language barrier, he notes, is so great that neither English nor Vietnamese can be successfully translated one into the other. He points out that since Vietnamese verbs do not change tense, the Vietnamese sense of time is indefinite. More important, perhaps, is the absence of the personal pronoun "I." Because Vietnamese speak of themselves in the third person, "a man's identity, his sense of himself, is always in relation to something, or someone else-usually something...
...clear that the removal of the physical barrier between Arabs and Israelis is bound to bring about the gradual disappearance of many stereotupes and prejudices. The existing trade between Israel and the West Bank is actually causing some kind of dialogue. The parties now understand better where they stand--diametrically opposed to one another...
...four-minute mile may be in the offing. Roy Shaw and Jim Baker flirted with the magic barrier on the boards, and should crack it with the added push of Doug Hardin...
...bill, most importantly, would lower the racial barrier for Negroes wishing to buy or rent any of some 80% of the nation's housing units. Dis crimination would be forbidden in about 52.6 million dwellings, including millions of single-family houses...
Despite this one barrier, the same girl said, bonds do form between patients and among groups of patients, and this phenomenon can aggravate a terrific problem in mental institutions--getting patients who have recuperated enough to be able to manage on the outside to leave the community where they feel secure and important. For Harvard students, however, there is usually a less stark contrast between a threatening outside world and a home-like hospital than that many patients face. As one boy explained, "Harvard students want to leave the hospital because they have a solid social structure to return...