Word: benoit
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...sophomore and winner of this event last year, Jennings finished the course in 16:20, 50 seconds ahead of her nearest rival and 27 seconds ahead of the record set last week by Bowdoin's Joan Benoit...
...Jean Benoit...
...question is asked by the novel's vibrant, sorrowful hero. Benoit Kaufman, a Romany who survives the concentration camps as a boy to become a successful protraitist of the rich and famous. Yet, unable to shake his past. Ben finally dedicates himself to avenge all those men, women, and children who were shot, gassed and incinerated. The specific object of his wrath is a fellow gypsy, a former Nazi collaborator who saved his own life by participating in the slaughter of others...
Ionesco: Yes, I am optimistic, but one must go through a long period of purgatory. I think there is an awakening now and it is especially manifested in France with the "new philosophers"--Jean-Marie Benoit, Berbard Levy, Lardreau, Glucksman, Emmanuel Todd and others. That's to say there is a new tendency to go beyond politics towards metaphysics. I think this is very important, and moreover, these young philosophers whom the whole world should know about--including the United States--are demystifiers of Soviet Marxism...
...Further, Benoit believes that counterforce could lead to irresistible pressure for the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to build more missile defense systems. Under SALT I, both nations are restricted to token defensive systems of two antiballistic missile sites each. Some critics warn that the Russians may look on counterforce not as a defensive measure but as an offensive one, enabling the U.S. to launch a limited first strike...