Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...analyzing the institution of the French royal mistress during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV, I have had to combat with skepticism from those who dismissed the project as frivolous. At the beginning of the fall semester, when thesis topics were the stuff of dinner table conversation, mine always provoked the most interested and amused responses...
...signs are everywhere. Black-clad, beret-wearing intellectuals walk the streets, muttering in French accents about meta-narratives and hermeneutics. Texts by Foucault have replaced the once ubiquitous Marx-Engels Reader as the staple on every academic reading list. One has merely to stroll through the ever-growing Literary Criticism sections in Cambridge bookstores to recognize the imminent danger that is threatening our society. The Day of Deconstruction is upon...
...order to combat the semiotic nightmare that seeks to undermine rational discourse, we must all be educated in the ways of the new vraisemblable. And as the French Freudians remind us, the place to begin is in the nursery. What better way to ease the transition to post-Structuralism than to train your child in the methods of the new episteme? Goodbye Dr. Spock; Hello Yale School of Deconstruction...
...time he graduates from high school, Junior will be able to face the challenges of higher academia with Transcendental Signifier firmly in hand. He has learned enough French to translate Tel Quel (So What) and enough German to converse knowingly about Aufheben. His bluebooks instruct him to write only in the margins. As he looks ahead to college, the choice of the major is the next question: will it be Historicismn or Metaphysics? Panaestheticism, Diachronics or Sociolects? In his first romance, he can hope for jouissance...
...French mine sweeper discovered a mine in the Gulf of Oman near the United Arab Emirates port of Khor-Al-Fakkan, near where it found another mine the previous day, the Defense Ministry in Paris said...