Word: seldomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...host of the crowded cocktail party that is his memoir, Gore Vidal is mostly on his best behavior. He seldom scandalizes his guests and rarely flings a martini into anyone's face. Courtly but gossipy, chummy but not overfamiliar, he proudly points out all the notables he has managed to attract to his soirae. Yet, while there is a good deal of pleasurable ogling to be had, Vidal's book is the sort of grand, teeming affair that leaves you feeling vaguely unsatisfied, as though you are not quite sure why he invited you in the first place...
...white man, black man" world in which the two races are diametrically opposed. As the former Speaker of the California House of Representatives, Willie Brown, said when his predominately white congress failed to change his leadership in the House, "We taught those white boys a lesson." You would seldom hear a white male or female, or a member of any other race use such language...
Besides conducting many classes, the Dance Center presented an annual series of concerts by members of the faculty, conducted a lecture series and sponsored screenings of many seldom-seen films. Fanger also established an exchange program between the Dance Center and the London Contemporary Dance School...
...corruption and brutality in America's police departments was right on target [POLICE, Sept. 11]. The law-enforcement officer is a product of the environment. Morale is at an all-time low. Even lower is public perception of law enforcement, one of the few careers in which you are seldom praised for doing a good job. After putting in the long, tedious hours, after experiencing the gut-wrenching fear of another dangerous arrest, and after completing mountains of paperwork, it is disheartening to go into the courtroom and see the now clean-shaven defendant, wearing a suit and tie, walk...
...Seldom have I read such a collection of lies and hypocritical nonsense as your interview with Serbia's President Milosevic [THE BALKANS, July 17]. The international community has a short memory. Milosevic and his allies, like Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic, are definitely war criminals, all right. But Milosevic gets the undivided attention of the world press and the willing ear of Western politicians. FREDDY SULS Vorselaar, Belgium...