Word: bons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHILE world attention has focused on Henry Kissinger for his role in negotiating a peace agreement on the Viet Nam War, Kissinger's counterpart from Hanoi, Le Duc Tho, has remained a mysterious and largely unrecognized figure. Kissinger, 49, the witty bon vivant and cosmopolite, seems to relish the spotlight; Tho, 62, a starchy and somewhat parochial party loyalist, lingers in the shadows, partly because of his own personality and partly as a reflection of his country's wishes. Kissinger once pointed up his own sense of humor and Tho's more doctrinaire determination by telling...
...Simply by helping black people in his own way. Which is something he never did before actively. He's not one for waving flags or marching or to picket or sit in and that sort of thing. He's a bon. He doesn't move except with great passion...
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...height of Harvard Square's equivalent of the Parisian May riots, in April of 1970, I came upon a Proustian looking youth contemplating the pastry in the shattered window of the French pastry shop C'est Si Bon on Dunster Street. After many moments of intense scrutiny he decided on a golden croissant which he carefully picked from out of the broken glass...
...legitimate nibble from C'est Si Bon, 46 Dunster Street, can be purchased fresh from 8:30 to 5:00 Monday through Friday and until 6:00 on Saturday. Should the offerings at C'est Si Bon or its sibling establishment at 17 Arlington Street in Boston remind you of the pastry tray at the Ritz Carlton, there is a simple reason: one chef is father to them...