In those days, the few French words most Americans knew were quiche, baguette, pâté, Brie and soufflé, and these items got a lot of play at dinner parties among those in the vanguard of elegance, as well as well-traveled academics.
But when you catch a cold, at least 10 other people sneeze across the globe, because you live in a country that is still the vanguard of personal well-being and individual liberty.
The second is the rise of a youthful, confident, entrepreneurial and well-educated vanguard of Africans who are leading a total overhaul of the continent.
But, should they somehow prevent the emergence of a viable Palestinian state, they may well be the vanguard of Israel's demise as a Jewish democracy.
The tactics of the police immediately provoked fierce criticism by many who might be called the Tbilisi revolutionary vanguard -- intellectuals and leftists, as well as business interests upset at what they see as an inclination, on the part of Saakashvili and his advisers, toward intimidation.
When a new category of gadget appears, it's understandable when the vanguard devices aren't the most well designed, or are resistant to disassembly and repair.
By then, Abstract Expressionism was well into its transition from vanguard to bandwagon to lame duck.
"Acting is difficult to talk about," he said, "because you either say, 'It's the vanguard of changing people's minds,' or, 'Well, it's better than working!' It's neither of those things.
As well as being in the vanguard of higher prices, Louboutin is also at the forefront of higher heels, bringing stilettos back into fashion, together with all the contradictions that come with them.
The party supplied much of the brains and elbow grease for such lay civil rights organizations as the National Negro Congress as well as for the biracial vanguard of the labor movement, the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
