Word: feare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the U.S. has cut off direct aid to Duvalier's corrupt regime, he also has little to fear from the outside. In the past year he has repaired his relations with the once hostile Dominican Republic, thanks largely to the fact that he once granted asylum to President Joaquin Balaguer. He also made his peace with the Roman Catholic Church in October by participating in a four-hour ceremony inaugurating the first native Haitian archbishop and four new Haitian bishops. The Vatican in return sent a new Papal nuncio and lifted Duvalier's earlier excommunication...
...Premier Levi Eshkol's coalition government. As the result of an Orthodox campaign abroad, Eshkol has been inundated with protests from Jews in 21 countries. At home, police guarded the domiciles of some pathologists who had received threats, and scores of sick were refusing to enter hospitals for fear of dissection if they died...
...them down, the local people were indifferent. Now it is common for Saigon to provide the cement and aluminum roofing and let the residents do the work. That way, notes Ho Van Chieu, primary education chief for Phong Dinh province, "the V.C. are afraid to burn them down for fear of infuriating the people who built them...
What do we fear with reason, or desire? Is a step made without regret? The gods...
Compared to the previous imitations, "The Vanity of Human Wishes" is a substantial effort (nearly four hundred lines) and a novel one. The closing verses, which provided Johnson with material for a fine passage ("Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? ..."), seems in the Lowell version to be more faithful to the original sprit. Juvenal, in a rate constructive comment, here urges man to pray for mens sana in corpore sano. Johnson's soaring close inspires, but is un-Juvenlia on that account. Lowell's tone is simpler, lightly ironic, and a little irritated: just right...