Word: vanguard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
EXPENSIVE PEOPLE by Joyce Carol Oates. 308 pages. Vanguard...
...often been with America. As the pioneer vanguard of the young Republic swept westward, Americans were gradually confronted by an embarrassing discrepancy between political dreams and everyday realities. There was on the one hand the agrarian, egalitarian Eden of their early (often mythical) memory, and on the other, the violent have-and-have-not realities of an incipient industrial state. At the end of the 19th century, this conflict-exacerbated by a civil war and a massive infusion of immigrants-had dislocated millions of people, to say nothing of their ideals. Where was America going? Had a continent been laid...
...Worthy of Louis XVI," Mandel termed the belittling comments toward student action in France. These "vanguard youth," he said, have been working constantly over the past five years, united in the struggle against "capitalist imperialism...
Taiwan's aid program in Africa, where Vanguard concentrates its efforts, is impartial enough to include a nation like Ethiopia, which votes for Peking in the U.N. It thus serves as an advertisement to countries still diplomatically uncommitted. Several countries have recognized Taipei after receiving technical advice; last week Vice Foreign Minister Yang Hsi-kung wound up his 22nd tour of the continent, bringing back diplomatic recognition from Gambia and newly independent Swaziland, and new cultural and economic agreements with four other African nations. So far, Taipei leads Peking 20 to 13 in the battle for recognition by African...
...Chefs. Vanguard also brings foreign technicians to Taiwan for seminars and advanced studies in agriculture, health, sanitation and land reform. More than 5,000 have taken advantage of Taipei's offer. So well known has the program become in Africa that recently the Taiwanese were asked to extend their assistance to gastronomy: at the request of President Mobutu, two Taipei chefs flew off to Kinshasa to impress the Congolese with their skills...