Word: chimera
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United States is in Vietnam, talking about Hitler and Ho, Communism and Nazism, and apparently forgetting that governments that do not abuse and exploit their peoples are usually pretty resilient. Effective government in a pre-industrial society is really at issue in Vietnam, not the chimera of Hitler-like expansionism...
...attempts to create a Berkeley attitude toward toward university life should receive as little attention from the Administration as it has from the students. We have shown repeatedly that we are not interested in chasing the chimera of "student government." Sincerely yours, MICHAEL R. MERZ...
...problem is partly semantic. To many Americans, "negotiations" is virtually synonymous with "cease-fire." Army Chief of Staff General Harold K. Johnson exorcised this chimera in Washington last week in a significant speech pointing out that 9,000 American soldiers died in Korea between the time that armistice negotiations began and a cease-fire was finally declared, two years later. All told, the two sides met 575 times; while they talked truce, 1,000,000 Americans were drafted, upwards of $10 billion went into the war, and nearly as many U.S. servicemen were wounded as before the negotiations got under...
Beneath the Chimera. For Ho, the confrontation with the U.S. over South Viet Nam is the crowning act of a long life dedicated to subversion. His personal Ho Chi Minh trail has led him through the widest range of revolutionary activity experienced by any living Red leader. En route, he shed identities like snakeskins, metamorphosing from cabin boy to pastry cook, from poet to guerrilla leader, from Parisian photo retoucher to pseudo-Buddhist monk. His name-changes alone would fill an address book (some 20 have been pinned down, ranging from Nguyen "the Victorious" to "Old Chap" Wang). But beneath...
...another is on the verge of suicide. Her task is made easy by the trifling competition of U.S. women, who, though pretty, "were devoid of fragrance like immortelles, coarsened into mannishness by some deep disappointment, and hostile to the male." Jacquemar, no Bellerophon, is unable to slay this particular Chimera. He falls hopelessly in love with Gabrielle and is endlessly deceived. Watching as she frolics with a farm boy, Jacquemar thinks: "The bitch is democratic." Age, status or wealth mean nothing to her "so long as she can do harm...