Word: myriads
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...mistrust. (It's no mistake that France 1848-1945. The best and most comprehensive book on French culture, should have been written by an Oxford professor, Theodore Zeldin.) Braithwalie is a Gallophile as only an Englishman can be, revelling in the wine-tasting, the pharmacies, the road signs, the myriad facets of everyday, life with a delight unmediated by the ever-present chauvinism of the French: "The light over the Channel, for instance, looks quite different from the French side: clearer, yet more volatile. The sky is a theatre of possibilities. I'm not romanticising." The central chapter...
...room for several days." He returned to Saigon as a TIME correspondent in 1972-73 and again in 1975. Johannesburg Bureau Chief Marsh Clark recalls the special problems of covering the war from 1968 to '70, when U.S. involvement was at its peak. "We tried to report on the myriad social difficulties the war was creating, especially the huge migration of people into the cities," he says. "Just covering the battles did not actually tell much about how the war was really going...
...myriad of performers will grace the CMAC stage in the coming months. Dance enthusiasts will have their pick of the Arts of Black Dance and Music (April 13) or the Chinese East-West Dance Theater (April...
...myriad of special interest groups, ranging from gay and lesbian organizations to labor unions, jockeyed for a spot on the state Democratic Party platform at open hearings this past weekend...
...reason for this swarm of organizations and conferences is that Geneva has few peers in such conveniences as luxurious hotels (12,000 rooms in all), myriad telex lines and multilingual interpreters. Says a U.S. diplomat: "Geneva is an ideal place to talk. It has square rooms, long rooms, high- ceilinged rooms, rectangular tables, round tables and horseshoe-shaped tables. It has restaurants, great shops, beautiful mountains and a lake...