Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Dumas, the French foreign minister, declared in Paris that China was "on the verge of civil war" and the French Embassy staff would be reduced "to the indispensable minimum...
...Feminist scholar and French literary expert Alice A. Jardine, professor of Romance languages and literature, says she has been granted a lifetime post by the University. Amid junior faculty complaints that they have almost no chance of being offered tenure at Harvard, Jardine's appointment is the second promotion of a junior faculty member from within her department in the last five years...
...hundred years after the advent of the French Revolution and the signing of the U.S. Constitution, a million Chinese marched in the streets of Beijing, demanding democracy and constructing their own Statue of Liberty. Despite the government's wanton massacre in the main roads surrounding Tiananman Square of 200,000 protesters on Saturday, and the threat of further crackdowns, hundreds of thousands returned to the streets this week in one of the most courageous defiances of government authority the world has seen in recent years, proving that, ultimately, force can not destroy a people's deep yearning to be free...
...work is more focused in English now than it used to be, so I decided I would have more freedom in English," said Johnson. She said that she plans to continue teaching some French literature courses through her appointment in Comparative Literature, which she will maintain...
While in Romance Languages and Literature, Johnson taught courses on 19th century French poetry and deconstructionism...