Word: soi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disposed to seek one. It is popular nowadays to assail academic professionalism for its "sterility," "narowness," or "irrelevance." All would agree that a sterile, narrow, person without a proper sense of relevance is a defective human being, but a far worse one is a soi-disant scholar who does not know his business. We think that the primary concern of the Graduate School must be to create authentic professional scholars who do know their business...
...mele un desir incoherent de participer au defi solidaire de la jeunesse. Derriere la naivete du celebre "J'ai quelque chose a dire mais je ne sais pas quoi" se trouve un besoin inarticule de s'unir aux autres, de s'echapper d'un anonymat individuel. "Le graffiti en soi devenait liberte," nous explique Besancon dans la preface...
...defend. U.S. commanders now intend to move the western an chor of U.S. defenses south of the DMZ eleven miles northeastward to Landing Zone Stud, the site from which the relief of Khe Sanh, Operation Pegasus, was launched three months ago. Stud, fairly securely nestled in the Khe Sui Soi River valley and now being fortified by U.S. Seabees, has a good airstrip. Unlike Khe Sanh, it is outside the 17-mile reach of North Vietnamese artillery dug into the mountains across the Laotian border. Under the new plan, Marines equipped with borrowed helicopters will try to move fast...
Slings of Artillery. Operation Pegasus had begun only four days previously under the command of Major General John J. Tolson, 53, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in Viet Nam. It was launched from Landing Zone Stud in the Khe Sui Soi river valley eleven miles northeast of Khe Sanh; its first task was to open Route 9, which had been in enemy hands since last August. Its overall goal: to create a ground supply line to Khe Sanh and to destroy the enemy around the Marine camp. To do the job, Tolson...
...Brussels, where he has discovered a gourmet's haven called Comme Chez Soi far off the beaten track, Heath gives small, elegant dinner parties for individual delegations. Says one recent guest: "He starts doing business immediately, asking questions all the time: 'Why do you do this?' 'Why do you want that?' By dessert he knows exactly what he wants to know." Though many were skeptical of Britain's motives at first, Heath has convinced Common Market officials of his government's deep commitment to membership in the community. "If this...