Word: barriere
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...problem of not being "ordinary" and yet not seeming too aloof-of lowering the barrier between sovereign and subject and yet not "staining the mystery," as Sir Harold Nicolson put it-is probably the greatest public relations problem of Britain's royalty. Scandinavia's rulers have ignored this problem, on the whole, by opting for ordinariness. No one crowds around Sweden's 84-year-old King Gustaf Adolf when he walks alone through the streets. A man passing him will take off his hat with a slight bow, whereupon the King will remove...
...curvy as the double bass she plays, does not mind. On tour, the men make up for it by falling all over themselves to carry her bags, and save her a seat on the bus. More than that, she is justifiably proud of breaking the sex barrier at the Philharmonic, which, apart from female harpists, has never in its 125-year history hired a woman musician fulltime. As it is, Orin struggled through ten years and several auditions before she finally won the job this year over 33 men bass players...
...Markets. Australia's awakening to its position in Asia was slow. Most Aussies tended to be more concerned with the Davis Cup than with diplomacy. "Overseas" was that vague, vast stretch of land beyond the Great Barrier Reef, and Britain took care...
...that this is appropriate in the sciences, where knowledge is "glittering, hard, clear." But, as he sees it, this is "professional training," not education; and the trouble is that humanities scholars have joined this "cult of the fact," and now "manage to interpose between us and the texts a barrier of knowledge more lush and impenetrable than our earlier ignorance...
Esther Clark, 46, has been covering military affairs for the Phoenix Gazette longer than most of the Saigon newswomen have been out of grade school. Since 1948, she has jetted through the sound barrier, been the first woman reporter to spend a day at sea aboard a submarine, and received an Air Force award for outstanding service by a civilian. Like most of the others, the soft-spoken brunette has studiously resisted being toughened into "one of the guys." Now in Viet Nam because "I felt I had to try explaining to the people at home what is going...