Word: forfend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ford offers a hypnotizing portrayal of a man covering despair with lunatic optimism, hysteria with bravado and rigid self-control, a fatal prejudice lingers in the audience: we do not want to spend a couple of hours with Allie here any more than we would if he were, heaven forfend, our next-door neighbor...
Which heaven forfend! The stylishness and power of impact of Katz's work are not in doubt. Over the years he has come up with a way of doing quite a lot with limited plastic means. His sources are largely those of Pop art: the quickly seen, iconic, coercive imagery of mass media, which he then modifies and softens with high-art references. His main subject is the human face, close up and cropped by the frame, a pearly or tanned mask of flat paint with schematic shading, great swacking eyelashes and lipstick-colored lips: it is the face...
...fact is," the Austin report concludes, "that the universities are simply not very good at reaching collective decisions on questions with social or political overtones." So, to forfend this fragile galaxy of genial political incompetents from overtaxing their powers of decision, the Austin report would entrust the power to formulate University moral investment policy to a "single officer of substantial standing, with a small staff, who would invite and sift suggestions from all members of the University community with respect to what might be termed the nonfinancial aspects of the University's role as investor...
Megaphones blared "Dada is all!" A brass band blasted off-key. And, heaven forfend, even the mayor, Emil Landolt, showed up to solemnly read a dada poem: "Switzerland is Dada. /Dada is nothing. /Superfluous mountains keep Switzerland from achieving concrete Dadaism. /Level the mountains...
...President Robert F. Goheen. whose wrought-iron fence was shorter by 30 ft. after the rumpus. Philosophized Governor Hughes: "It's spring, and the sap begins to run." The annual undergraduate sugaring-off rites scorched the ivy elsewhere in the league. At Yale, tipped-off police hoped to forfend a fracas by locking the freshmen inside the Old Campus. But the freshmen broke out, chanting "We want sex, we want sex," as they streaked for a dormitory occupied by women graduate students. The graduate girls peered out the windows and smiled tolerant, grownup smiles. Then the demonstrators headed...