Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Justice officials and Agnew's lawyers had been unable to agree on a bargain under which the Vice President would resign and be charged with a lesser offense than the evidence warranted...
With such an example of candor, the portraitists of lesser dignitaries seem to have really looked at their sitters, producing heads that represent real people with individuality rather than conventional images. Even the royal family was portrayed in familiar situations - kissing, hugging or dandling a child. Nefertiti's striking facial resemblance to her husband, however, is thought by some scholars to be the result of artistic license, a concession to the kingly features considered ideal at the time...
...until the grand finale that the Doctor partakes of the violence she had only been directing up to that point. In a kind of calculated loss of self-control, Ma-Gico wholeheartedly murders an old blind king who has just survived three similar murder attemps by lesser characters. Deriving overwhelming pleasure from the act, Ma-Gico can do nothing but end the play which has consisted, in effect, of a comic parade of hangings, murders, elongated phalluses, and other instruments of horror controlled by Ma-Gico...
...Harvard this Fall--The New Freshmen, The ROTC Rooters, Stephen Hall and the Soybean Specials--music listings for Boston seem almost superfluous. But the year is new and so is the philosophy behind these notices: Besides ccapsules of the major rock concerts, these listings will also alert you to lesser known, more talented rock and sometimes jazz performers who rarely get the attention they deserve. Honest-to-goodness folkies and bluegrass players have more musical talent than all of Alice Cooper's cobras laid end to end. 'Tis better to overlook a multimillion-making electronic group than an exciting unknown...
...HAVE been so obviously unqualified to be president of the United States as Richard Nixon. Perhaps in the past men of lesser talent have occupied the post, but they held it in times when the demands of the job were not so great. Among presidents, Nixon holds the unhappy distinction of being the most disastrously incompetent. He should either leave or be removed from office...