Word: vivendi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interesting story about their initial meeting in September 1985. Having assigned French historian Georges LeFebrve's 600-plus page biography of Napoleon as the first week's reading, Choquette fully expected Ueno to arrive shell-shocked, as had all of her previous tutees. Not so Ueno. Although the modus vivendi of the assignment had been to encourage students "to learn how to skim, to pick and choose," Ueno walked into tutorial, obviously having read and absorbed the entire work, and inquired how she could write to the publisher in order to notify him of several translation errors she had noted...
...members of the surviving dynasties-the Dutch and the Belgians, the Swedes and the Danes-they managed to find a modus vivendi largely by effacing themselves: riding bicycles, using public transport, marrying commoners and generally behaving like senior civil servants rather than anointed kings and queens...
Muskie's immediate and overriding problem will be to work out a modus vivendi with Brzezinski that fully establishes the Secretary of State's position. It will not be an easy task. The National Security Adviser is a man of strong views directly put. Brzezinski likes to say, "In life you must take risks," and he shapes his policy thoughts accordingly. His favorite historical figure is Napoleon. He often quotes a phrase he attributes to the Emperor: "On s'engage et puis on voit" (roughly, "You act and then you see"). A less favored and not yet historical figure...