Word: lest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...department in one neat announcement reaffirmed its ancient policy that assembles 125 seniors each May for a three hour lest questioning them in a field they have little or no training in: comparative history. At the same time, the department retained its practice of evaluating these general exams as one third of an undergraduate's final standing in the department...
That is certainly true. Inflation is running at 85% per year, the currency is practically worthless, and many staples are almost unobtainable. Ugandans do not complain lest they receive a visit from Amin's public safety unit, a corps of goons in dark glasses who, as a Ugandan exile put it, "specialize in making people disappear-permanently." For those who disappear only temporarily, there is the prospect of torture: Kampala abounds with tales of prisoners who have been buried to their necks in cesspools, forced to beat comrades to death or compelled to engage in cannibalism. Shopkeepers accused...
...Capra's Lest Hertron, with Ronald Colman, Friday and Saturday...
...when the Elks member explains his reasons for excluding blacks from his club, and the banker in Poplarville, Mississippi talks about "nigras," the reactionary trap of the Liberal as guilty populist gapes wide, trying to lull us into thinking that it is somehow "openminded" to tolerate these attitudes. Lest the good writing mislead us, it is helpful to remember that this is still journalism, and these are real people...
...Here they are provided by Yul Brynner, the worn adventurer who never comprehends that it is not his reign but its interruptions that grant him stature. With a strange accent that suggests all nations and an abiding virility, Brynner gives the musical its few seconds of truth and vitality. Lest they endure, Joan Diener, as Penelope, always manages to shriek them to a close. In Homer's Odyssey, the goddess Circe changes the hero's shipmates into swine. In this Odyssey the manufacturers have exceeded her feat; they have taken a masterpiece and turned it into...