Word: latter-day
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Nutting believes that Lawrence began to see himself as a kind of latter-day Messiah. Shown an illustration for Pillars that pictured him as a godhead above the clouds looking down on the Arab revolt, Lawrence was amazed that anyone could capture so completely what at times he felt about himself during the desert campaign. But he also felt deeply that he had betrayed the Arab cause in whose name he fought. Fearful of his enormous talent for power and equally fearful of the potential consequences of such power if misdirected, Lawrence fled to the monastic security of the R.A.F...
...from narcotics to counterfeiting. At one estate the hoods and their families came out and started pushing the NBC cameramen around; Brinkley showed that, too. A more obvious entry in the Journal dealt with that old American folk hero, the cowboy, as he lives in 1961. Brinkley found his latter-day cowboys at a 200,000-acre ranch in Wyoming, where the working day begins at 3 a.m. with breakfast, and other meals are served at 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.. and the menu never varies: beef, beans, potatoes. The surprising truth seems to be that the American...
...latter-day little magazine has developed its own stereotypes, on hand in these pages as if answering a roll call. There is the tough-guy-meet-Zen school, whose usually quite high priest is William (Naked Lunch) Burroughs. There is the mumbling, imagist-naturalist prose that reflects life as if seen through a speckled barroom mirror. There is a scattering of earnest erotica. Much of all this displays the four-letteracy with which very young authors prove to the world that they are grown...
...with his own paper. A devout and hymn-singing Presbyterian, the Beaver had been irritated by a Sunday Express story about some British clergymen who deplored the assault tactics of door-to-door canvassers for two religious faiths: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). Thundered disgruntled Reader Beaverbrook: "Mormon missionaries represent an important and dignified branch of the Christian religion. Their people in Utah and elsewhere are good-living and God-fearing citizens . . . Paragraphs and interviews denouncing Mormon missionaries should not be given publicity in the Sunday Express" Said Sunday Express...
Package design is the latter-day god of merchandising; executives often spend more of their expensive time worrying about the package than about its contents. Last week, in the trade fortnightly Food Field Reporter, Norman Scott Gardner, a designer himself (Renwal kits, American Can, Empire Brush), took his colleagues sharply to task. "I get the feeling that somewhere along the line, the human values in design have been forgotten...