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...Strauss is best immortalized by the title of one of his greatest books, “La Pens??e Sauvage.” “Pens??e” translates literally as “thought,” but in its secondary meaning it can also signify a kind of flower. Lévi-Strauss combined both of these ideas in his own person—the unruly directions in which his thought bloomed speaking to a consuming intellect at once exquisitely savage and fiercely beautiful...
...length (fleeting)? Granted, the author's previous book was a No. 1 blockbuster that sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, but the difference is that his original was far superior: a deceptively simple but ultimately smart lesson on coping with the inevitability of change. Here, the pens??es are punier. A confused young Everyman journeys to the top of a mountain, where he is instructed by a wise old man given to restating the obvious ("Find and use the good that is hidden in the bad time"). The peaks and valleys of the title are the ups and downs...
Protesters said the crowd flow problem was exacerbated by a complex system of “holding pens?? that prevented them from moving south on First Avenue...
This did not suit Premier Herriot. In theory he agreed with his British colleague, but in practice he accepted Pascal's famous pens??e with a single addition: "Justice with power is security" ? meaning that arbitration backed by force was the only guarantee of security that would be accepted by France. Said he: "Arbitration is necessary, but arbitration is not sufficient. Arbitration, security, disarmament? those are three things inseparable. We must create something more than an abstract form of words. Arbitration shows good faith, but we must protect good faith. We must protect those states which show their good...
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