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Hopes & Fears. Among historians, Durant is the great anecdotist. Catherine, Queen to England's Charles II and a lady to her fingertips, finds the King disheveled in his chambers, notices a slipper beside the bed and graciously withdraws "lest the pretty little fool hiding behind the curtains should catch cold." Peter the Great, greeted by the King of France before the royal palace, graciously picks up his host and carries him up the steps like an infant...
Last Spring the HCUA submitted to the Administration a report recommending improvements in certain classroom facilities, such as lighting and ventilation. The Administration complied speedily and well with many of the recommendations. But lest it forget, the Administration should be reminded that not everything has been accomplished: since William James lectured there, the opportunities for lighting in Emerson D have vastly increased, and deserve to be exploited...
...hear this. All glands-secrete, secrete." Once an aspiring opera singer, Manna scores another sequence with his noteworthy tenor as he graduates the barber of Seville from barber school with a Phi Beta and has him refuse to part a man's hair from ear to ear lest people whisper into the fellow's nose. And in an inspired version of the death of Caesar, he has Caesar standing in the Forum hearing senatorial complaints. One comes from Cassius, who thinks there should be a month named after him. That would be ludicrous, retorts Caesar, whetting Cassius...
...best 'interests of the U.S. The Senate committeemen had been particularly anxious to hear Taylor. Did the Joint Chiefs of Staff, professional military men less interested in diplomatic advances than in U.S. might, support the test ban? Yes, said Taylor, they did. But some Senators were still concerned lest the Joint Chiefs had come to that decision not out of conviction but under pressure from the civilians of the Kennedy Administration. That fret was expressed in an exchange between Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Taylor...
...Lest we forget: on May 17, 1933 Adolf Hitler delivered his famous "Peace Speech," a masterpiece of deceptive propaganda that proclaimed Germany's wish for disarmament. There was great rejoicing throughout the Western world at this unexpected reasonableness, but in reality Hitler's plan was to give the world a false sense of security while secretly building up Germany's forces...