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...standard French usage since 1635, added 912 new words to the new volume, or about a quarter of its contents. What will rile purists is that 75% of the new entries, while rooted in Greek or Latin, are based on English technical or scientific terms. Says Academy Member Henri Gouhier: "English, like all foreign languages, is both threatening and enriching...
Lieut. General Henri Namphy, president of the ruling National Council of Government, was philosophical about the disappointing turnout. Looking ahead to congressional and presidential elections scheduled for late 1987, he observed, "We are showing them the path so that next year everything will go normally." After the council's haphazard approach to last week's vote, Haitians remain dubious...
...converging lines or the distribution of shadows seems to miss the point, as though dwelling on style means slighting the substance. Worse, it suggests that the work was preconceived in a way that no reporting is supposed to be. The examples of artist-reporters like W. Eugene Smith and Henri Cartier-Bresson prove otherwise, but the assumption survives that artists have visions, journalists have assignments. They both may think to themselves, "I am a camera," but each means something different...
...primitive" (that escape route of a culture stuck in the gridlock of its own sophistication) and the dream of a utopian machine future. One could have a sculpture that was also a little building, like Alberto Giacometti's The Palace at 4 A.M., 1933, or a still life, like Henri Laurens's Dish with Grapes, 1918; an image of landscape, like David Smith's Australia, 1951, or for that matter a real landscape, like Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, 1970, a quarter-mile coil of rock now sunk in Utah's Great Salt Lake...
...Paris, members of the New Philosophers movement were powerfully impressed by Alexander Solzhenitsyn's voluminous account, published in the mid-1970s, of the appalling Soviet Gulag camps for political prisoners. The period brought the spectacle of Communist Leader Pol Pot's genocide of perhaps 3 million Cambodians. Writer Bernard-Henri Levy blamed Marxism for Communist atrocities, and the charge resonated among French thinkers. Although their disillusionment was intellectual, it helped set the stage for Europe's economic shift half a decade later...