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February 1968. Month-long fighting to suppress Tet offensive. After years of optimistic predictions from U.S., Communists have demonstrated ability to strike at will, but offensive ends in Communist military defeat. Hué recaptured after 26 days...
...APPENDIX is "The Discourses on Language," Foucault's inaugural lecture on assuming his chair at the College de France in 1970. The title is a mistranslation of "L'ordre du discours." Appropriately, the lecture sketches out, in addition to a theory of the way in which societies regulate and suppress discourses, a number of possible projects with which we can expect to see Foucault continue his work. One such project might be an investigation of concepts of sexuality as expressed in linguistic taboos and their changes. Another, at an even more basic level, might investigate how ritual discourse...
Mahoney has been traveling around the country in an effort, he claimed, to let people know about the length the U.S. government will go to suppress dissent in the countr
...that he ought to be. Like Hans van Meergeren, who could forge Vermeers but could create nothing of much merit on his own, Novelist Irving achieved his one triumph by creating a fictional character out of a man who, unfortunately for Irving, was alive enough to rise up and suppress the falsification of his life...
...suppress the accent and step up your pace, you can thereby become "just like everyone else," and the comments will comes immediately. But somehow it seems a bit unfair. As long as you're lumped with all these once-objectionable people and things that compute. "The South," you might as well take a second look at them...