Word: pas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commitment to a democratic Vietnam in these young people is understandable if still disappointing to me. They fail to see why they should make plans for their country or themselves as the people and things will indefinitely continue to be chewed up by war. I committed a major faux pas when I requested a forum/interview arrangement with some of the students, thinking the transcription might be of interest to an American newspaper. My suggestion was coldly ignored. Later I discovered that my interest in their views tagged me as a CIA man, not a popular American role in Vietnam...
Only a handful of Harvard departments have decided on a second pas-fail question--whether their concentrators can count pass-fail course toward degree requirements. The largest undergraduate fields of concentration--History, Government, English, and Economics won't be ready to settle the issue until January...
...London to admire his work. She applauded so well that he spirited her off to Monaco for a gala chez Princess Grace. Not content with two performances at the Monte Carlo Opera, Rudi fetched Lee onto the floor at the Black Jack Club for what was probably his first pas de deux anywhere in a fur Mao Tse-tung jacket. "Rudolf dances almost as well in private as he does onstage," Lee marveled...
...amount of lyrical or musical genius can obliterate the productions one grisly faux-pas: an otherwise nonexistent character choreographed for himself by the director. It is one thing for a director to appear in his own production, and quite another to write himself into it. Besides, he should have trusted this production enough to be in the audience, watching...
...Pas de Deux. From the moment of 188's launching, Russian scientists say, computers aboard Cosmos 186, reportedly large enough to carry a crew of five, began the sophisticated automatic process of finding and linking up with Cosmos 188, the passive, beaconlike partner in the space pas de deux. Then, while 188 was still in its first orbit, the two spacecraft oriented their docking mechanisms toward one another. Painstakingly, 186 moved closer. Then, high over the Ascension Island area in the South Atlantic, 186 slipped its pronged nose into a docking collar mounted on 188, linking the electrical circuits...