Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from wishing to needle the bourgeoisie, as did the School-of-Paris moderns half a century ago, the young pioneers of American painting crave appreciation. When it is not forthcoming, some of them sulk and some shrug. But none of them seems to laugh. "To refashion the fashioned, lest it stiffen into iron, means an endless vital activity," they argue with Goethe. They solemnly reiterate that since impressionism, cubism and abstractionism have proved meaningful over the years, abstract expressionism will, too. And curiously enough, this wishful argument-by-analogy does cow some critics and win over others...
...remarked," said Stevens, "that in that case it was rather strange neither Signor Nenni nor any other spokesman for the Italian Socialist Party had ever spoken in disagreement with their Communist allies on such crucial questions. Signor Gronchi said that Signor Nenni was afraid to express his feelings openly lest it precipitate an open break with the Communists, which might split his own party...
...they find relevance again in certain features of the Christian understanding of life. On the other hand . . . the church has begun to produce theologians and critics who have dealt authoritatively with culture and the arts, as well as artists of genuine stature . . . Religion has a depth which art needs lest it become tempted to estheticism. Religion, on the other hand, is expressed most profoundly through the forms which constitute the proper concern...
...that study requirements, time devoted to his job, and three hours a week of physical training often add up to more than 24 hours a day. The Athletic Department, on the other hand, has long maintained that three hours of compulsory sports are necessary to maintain his physical fitness, lest he become prematurely weak and sick in the artificial atmosphere of Lamont Library...
...Lest they forget, lest they forget, That yours was the exclusive...