Word: forswear
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Tactical Point. Backing down from his insistence in April that members of the National Liberation Front would have to forswear Communism and lay down their arms before they would be allowed to vote, Thieu now stipulated only that the N.L.F. "renounce violence and pledge themselves to accept the results of the election." He promised that his government would also abide by the outcome and offered to meet with the N.L.F. for discussion of "the timetable and the modalities under which the elections will be held." Thieu did not specify which offices might be contested or how the voting would...
...possible solution would be for the Front to forswear violence in return for the privilege of forming a political party that would exert power in South Viet Nam like any other party, to the extent that it wins votes. This arrangement is now discussed as the "Greek solution," since the N.L.F., like the Greek Communist Party following the civil war in 1950, would have to change its name in order to comply with the South Vietnamese constitution. Thieu has spoken derisively of such a proposal, though he has not actually ruled it out. Indeed, there is little doubt that...
...paintings and 50 sculptures. Their architect was Philip Johnson, 62, who has designed half a dozen museums and an underground gallery for his own soupcan-to-nuts art collection in New Canaan, Conn. In fact, it was the Kreegers' plight as fellow collectors that made Johnson forswear his resolve never to design another house. "Too bad," said Kreeger when Johnson first turned them down. "We had hoped you would help us with a dilemma." "What's that?" asked Johnson, perking up. "We like lots of glass, but we need wall space for our collection." "Interesting," said Johnson...
...vagrant. He wandered into the entourage of Mme. de Warens, a sprightly young matron and Catholic convert who was easily able to induce her young lover to accept the old faith. Later, when Rousseau wanted to resume the hereditary rights of a citizen of Geneva, he had to forswear his conversion. The road to and from Rome was equally painless; he was his own religion...
...scene where Millamant finally consents to marry Mirabell, for example, Miss Cole sticks to her careful articulation, and Gray to his sententions manner. Their conversation mainly concerns what limits they will put on each other's freedom: Mirabell is not to do this or that, Millamant is forswear such and such. The talk is very formal, but the two characters' emotions should be seen breaking through. Miss Cole and Gray played the scene like a pair of lawyers, however. This can only have been Mullin's idea, and I think it is an example of what his approach...