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...live-with-can't-live-without variety. But in the end he was not well rewarded. A communist, he ran afoul of the House Un-American Activities Committee and was indicted for refusing to testify. Lily, as he called her, was then a rich writer, but, lest her career be jeopardized, she refused to make his bail, departing, instead, for London and Paris. Why? Reveling in success, and desperate to write the script for an Alexander Korda movie of War and Peace, she was afraid of being branded a leftist...
...would encourage you and your colleagues to be in touch with this office before rising matters on the Faculty floor, lest you jeopardize the courtesy [of] the chair [President Neil L. Rudenstine]," Fox wrote in the letter...
...Lest you fear that this bright-eyed, bushy-tailed Crimson Keyster has forgotten about the loneliness and ,desperation that so powerfully characterized the first half of my "Union walk," fear...
Hanson told the Crimson that wrote the book this past summer in her family's cabin in the woods of Michigan. Lest she give the impression of a Thoreauvian romp in the woods, however, she warns, "I wouldn't say it was the most pleasant experience.... I wish I had other work to do." She adds that the life of a writer sometimes got to her because "it was very solitary...
This is what things have come to in the latter days of school desegregation in Kansas City. For the sake of desegregation, blacks are sometimes barred from the most popular schools on account of their race, lest they tilt the enrollment too far from the goal of 35% white students. Like most urban systems, the Kansas City, Missouri, School District (KCMSD) has lost white students to the suburbs in droves, which has made the task of achieving racial balance nearly impossible. After deciding that inner-city students could not be bused out to the suburbs as part of a mandatory...