Word: vis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Square offers rather meager prospects vis a vis grassy sports on which to sleep off the night before, or the meal, and to while away the time in between. And seclusion vanishes like hotcakes. The banks of the river Charles are likely to be packed with sunners, sleepers or cavorters who make either difficult. I suppose nobody would object to nakedness if you felt that you really needed it, but I've never seen it. (Four years ago a group of Radcliffe women were arrested running around without any clothes on in front of a camera crew on the highway...
...whether Niemans move on to bigger and better things because they have received an offer while at Harvard or because the year here has altered their perspectives vis-a-vis journalism, Thomson feels that the Nieman program creates an incentive for editors and publishers to improve the profession...
...afraid that Frances Fitzgerald does not contribute to clarifying the Vietnamese situation vis-a-vis the public. Her expertise, quickly acquired from superficial trips to south Viet-Nam and French colonial writings, is apt to sow more confusion among Americans and hide the real reasons for the U.S. involvement in Viet-Nam. Truong Dinh Hung Director, Vietnam Political Freedom Committee
...point to all this has, no doubt, eluded you. Dr. Hallet's crime was merely to forge the travelers checks of a dead man--no great loss. What would have made for a much more horrifying film would have been a story of Dr. Hallet--vis a vis 1973--conducting his research with hundreds of black or Chicano subjects. The film credits would have read: "This is a true story although the names of the characters have been changed to protect the innocent and the not-so innocent...
...note that in your News Analysis of Monday April 14, you quote me as having said vis-a-vis the petition on re-hiring of radical professors: "It seems to me that if 1400 students signed that petition and got no response from the University, the Commission should take it over." I fear you have, and not for the first time, juxtaposed two statements of mine in such a way as to convey a false impression. I do indeed feel that if 1400 students sign a petition, then the appropriate University office should entertain it and respond...