Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thieu is also disturbed by the growing popularity in the Assembly of the "third force" idea, revived in November by dovish Senator Tran Van Don and General Duong Van (Big) Minh. Though never precisely defined, the phrase-a familiar one to old Viet Nam hands-envisions a regime that is completely accountable to neither the Communists nor the Americans but is acceptable to both. Thieu is understandably convinced that, whatever shape a third-force government might take, it would exclude him-and he is determined to keep the idea from gaining momentum. His campaign is not limited to the legislature...
...Last week Lange was seeking $1,000,000 to launch a new regional magazine. Atlanta had a new editor, Norman Shavin, who agrees with Shelton that the magazine needs more "balance." Which seems to mean that the old, controversial Atlanta is dead. If so, its obituary might borrow a phrase from Publisher Shelton, who feared it had become "an anti-Establishment magazine published in the bosom of the Establishment...
...literal translation of a German pun. At the end of a party, guests usually mixed the leftover wines, called the occasion Kalte Ende, or "cold ends." Soon the phrase became Kalte Ente, or Cold Duck...
...rehearsals, the two dozen members (mostly girls) sit in the back of the dreary supermarket on Second Avenue, singing instead of chattering like most teenagers, while Bernice Cole strolls around like a matronly cheerleader. She shouts and sings at them, molding a phrase, breaking up at a mistake, her big voice brassing through the uproar. Mostly, though, she stays out of their...
...assertion that existence is dependent upon individual perception; Hume's denial of the existence of absolute space. For Borges' admirers, the delicious point is simply that he takes reality with a grain of salt. Great events, vast trends, the pompous certainties implied by the French phrase grands mots -all these are not for Borges. History, that troubling angular presence that the middle-aged invoke to prove to the young that nothing ever really changes or can be changed, may not exist at all. In a typically brief but suggestive essay, significantly entitled The Modesty of History, Borges rejects...