Word: vanguarde
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...youth culture acts like a revolutionary vanguard, and it has won an extraordinary number of followers in a short time. In part this must be because it is not like most people's lives, and therefore can offer alternative vision. It has made its values-the values for which one is willing to for sake, or at least question, corporate America-apparent...
...that we on the podium would melt in fear. They were wrong because unlike some campus revolutionaries who hide out at Harvard we come from the real world. Another alternative would have been to engage us in meaningful dialogue, but of course, that's too bourgeois for these brave vanguard marshmallow revolutionaries...
...program billed as essential to American primacy in the world. President Nixon observed last week, after the Senate had joined the House in ending further federal subsidy for the SST, that the congressional action "could be taken as a reversal of America's tradition of staying in the vanguard of scientific and technological advance." Says Paul Seabury, a Berkeley political scientist: "It is the first time in American history that a major technological innovation has been shot down...
...picturesque Belfast pub that dates from the early 1800s and is frequented by Catholic Republicans. Even out of uniform, the young soldiers would have easily tipped their identities with their burrs. Belfast Catholics hate the Scottish troops even more than the English because the Scots have been in the vanguard of many of the arms searches in Catholic homes. Besides, they are predominantly Protestant. The three fusiliers were probably lured away from Kellys by their assassins, posing as newfound drinking chums. On the city's outskirts, a few residents heard gunfire, then saw a red Mini car, carrying...
...through the printed word. The drama he evoked out of his own sweat and blood and pathos was at times self-pitying and sentimental: the tragedy that such emotions are inherent in a situation which equates discipline with human mechanization. Jones swung wildly, taking on the military as he vanguard of a new technological state: but his authority of time and setting made one swallow his statements, and swallow them hard. History has vindicated his peachiness...