Word: lest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reminded of the words of Robert E. Lee: "It is good that war is so terrible, lest we grow fond...
...haze," Richard Burton boasted last week. And all because wife Elizabeth bet her convivial Welshman that he couldn't abstain for three months. A trimmer Burton has not only won the wager (a kiss or something; he forgets), but has stretched his dry period to nearly six months. Lest his public misunderstand his sober ways, Burton begged his interviewer: "Please don't make me out to be against alcohol. I'll get all sorts of letters from the temperance people, and I certainly don't want to encourage their cause. I owe a lot to booze...
...Lest I seem to be an aging reactionary, let me assure you that I have no hatred for the new music. I suspect that the trouble is not in the music, but in the composer. Writing in the New York Times recently, Aaron Copland observed that too many contemporary composers use the university as their base, and consequently, the music they produce is refined and scholarly, yet almost unfit for human consumption, except for those who believe that music should be seen and not heard. Coplan cites Foss, with his long connection with UCLA, and now Harvard...
...Glory has become so ubiquitous and frequently so bewildering in its political, cultural, commercial, civic and patriotic implications that millions of American moderates are left simply regretting the loss of its earlier innocence. Some have decided, rather sadly, not to fly the flag these days lest it be misinterpreted. In this sense, there is a new group of silent Americans?the ones who feel that their flag has been expropriated by the right or by commercialism, but also feel no impulse to turn it into a shirt...
Unfinished. In some ways, Snowdon has to cool his competitive instincts as a journalist lest he be accused of taking advantage of his royal access. Except in his role as court photographer, he says, "I only do pictures that anyone could have done." His celebrity status actually represents even more of a handicap when he is shooting film. "When you're doing stills," he says, "you're a chameleon, unseen and alone." TV filming is a more conspicuous, crowd-attracting business, particularly since union rules require a minimum crew of five. Though a cameraman was on the payroll...