Word: moi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CENTRAL HIGHLANDS of Vietnam live perhaps a million people from 33 non-Vietnamese tribes. Ethnic Vietnamese once called the tribesmen Moi--"savages"--but the French called them Montagnards, and the word stuck as a generic term, even though the tribesmen continued to think of themselves as members of individual villages, not a larger mountain culture...
...HEADED for the seawall, now totally black and foggy. A dark black shape moved in the darkness against the wall. "Francois?" But it was an old man, perhaps from the next town, on his way home by the shortest route. "Pardonnez-moi, monsieur, avez-vous vu un petit homme bossu qui courait... have you seen a little hunchback running along the wall?" The man stumbled back into the dark, changing his path a little--"Non, non, non..." --and vanished...
...later Auden, in fact, swam in light verse like a seal in surf: "Paul Valery/ Earned a meager salary/ Walking through the Bois/ Observing his Moi." When people called him frivolous, Auden replied, "When you are labeled 'serious' in the U.S., you are expected to wear a long face all the time. I don't agree." He was fond of adding in defense of craftsmanship, "Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are irresponsible puppets of fate and charm...
...British and the Germans are paying for French agriculture. That is all -and not enough." Remarked German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel last week: "This objective [of union by 1980] will never be achieved if each of the interested parties says: 'L'Europe, c'est moi...
...right. Says Kurland: "We do not even have a good definition of Executive privilege. It certainly does not mean an individual official's interest-including the President's. We've not yet arrived at the Louis XIV state-'L'état c'est moi...