Word: moi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gustave Flaubert, the master of style, the father of realism, used to tweak his mighty mustaches and quiver his 19th century, man-of-letters jowls while he told interviewers, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi." Indeed she was, and this book documents...
...South Vietnamese, who contemptuously regard the tribespeople as moi (savages), have used the war to exploit the Montagnards in other ways. Under the French, the hill people were protected against being overrun by the South Vietnamese. In 1954 there were only about 20,000 Vietnamese living in the highland provinces. But during the late '50s, President Ngo Dinh Diem directed more than 200,000 Vietnamese, including many Catholic refugees from North Viet Nam, into the area...
...Last week two of the three finalists from the Palace of Culture made their debut in a crowded bar in Warsaw's Hotel Bristol. As the music progressed from a staid rendition of Mendelssohn's Wedding March to the sexy West European hit Je T'Aime . . . Moi Non Plus, a big-busted performer called Satana writhed her way out of a wedding dress, finally getting down to only...
...Tight. During the pretrial hearing, Joseph Remcho, 27, a member of the Lawyers' Military Defense Committee that has been defending G.I.s, asked that the jury be selected at rani dom. Remcho had lost on the same moi tion in a dozen previous cases. This time, however, Colonel Arthur Corley, commander of Long Binh, consented. Explained the career officer: "The mil-j itary justice system is under attack, par- i ticularly by those who consider themselves more liberal than the establishment . . . We decided to give it a try to show that we are not so tight...
...Gaulle still remained something of a mystery to Americans. He claimed a grandeur, a synecdoche of self and nation ("La France, c'est moi"), which in another man would have seemed monstrously totalitarian, or at least extremely eccentric. America's last comparable hero was Dwight Eisenhower, as Kansan as De Gaulle was Cartesian, and it may be that Ike was the last man who could have said with any safety: "I am America!" Richard Nixon would not dare to try the formulanor would Georges Pompidou, for that matter. The U.S. has accommodated itself to a life...