Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baha'is believe world peace will eventually be reached via a two-stage process: a lesser, or political, peace and a greater, or religius, peace. By the year 2000, the lesser peace will be achieved, Andrews says, quoting Baha'i writings...
...saying, 'everybody, go hide in your basements.' [We're saying] just try to love each other a little so the lesser peace won't be so bad," she says...
There are some delightful "pure" works of art in this show, like Alexander Calder's little maquette for a huge motorized sculpture at the New York World's Fair -- a small, sharp orrery with strong cosmological overtones. There are also some rarities by lesser-known artists, notably the huge cubist- derived portrait of the workings of a watch by Gerald Murphy, the American expatriate on whom Scott Fitzgerald was to base his character of Dick Diver. . But compared with the knockout confidence of the work of engineers and designers represented in this show, the machine-esthetic painting...
...scientists or defense officials believe in perfect defense. Some who doubt the technological feasibility of such a task have urged that the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the Pentagon concentrate on the lesser task of defending our weapons rather than our cities. The rationale would be to enhance rather than replace deterrence. That goal is very different from the President's original speech. In a sense, the public is being sold a product that does not match its packaging. An elementary concern for truth in advertising should lead us to distinguish "SDI 1" (The March 1983 brand...
...life's supporting players. "Creative people pay a heavy price" is Frances' belief, and as editor and lover, she "had put herself in the service of such people. Perhaps she had done so because she wished to be more like them, although she knew she belonged to another, lesser species, the race of people who answer their phones and fold the bath towels." Like modern folk everywhere, she also yearns for meaning in life, or at least an organizing principle, and Paul's ego is big enough to provide it, "to make life cohere, like...