Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cause of all that passion-and of lesser outbursts in other state legislatures -is a subject guaranteed to put most ordinary citizens to sleep: reapportionment. In state capitols across the country, legislators are wrangling to draw new boundaries for U.S. congressional districts to conform with the 1980 census. (After that, they will reapportion their own state legislatures.) The decennial battle, always a partisan struggle, is especially heated this year: a total of 17 seats must be transferred from ten states in the Northeast and Midwest to eleven states in the West and the South. Those losing seats are New York...
...promise, as he orders Claudio's execution, is utterly despicable. Even when the Duke returns in disguise of a friar, and devises an elaborate plan to save Isabelle's honor, spare Claudio's head, and unmask the culprits--his plan is so strangely convoluted--a series of lesser sins to offset greater crimes--that it is barely within the letter, and certainly nowhere near the spirit of the law. The redress of injustice is less than joyful, and certainly less than uncompromised. That this entire ruse is unnecessary, fulfilling only the Duke's own desire for theatrics, gives the play...
...French contemporaries-a point vividly made by the first court of the exhibition, in which representative works from the salons of the 1870s are juxtaposed with Rodin's. This witty melange serves to indicate what Rodin absorbed by way of themes, images and treatments from lesser men like Jean-Paul Aubé, whose figure of Dante conversing with a damned soul may have helped start the train of thought that led to The Gates of Hell, or Alexandre Falguière, whose monument to Lamartine is distantly echoed in Rodin's bronze crag of literature, the Balzac...
Could he have foreseen all that so soon followed he would probably have chosen the lesser evil and have saved the ship by killing the whale even at the expense of losing the rudder. For the monster took a turn off about 300 yards ahead, then turning short came around with his utmost speed and again struck the ship a tremendous blow with his head and with such force as to stove in the whole bow at the water's edge. One of the men who was below at the time came running upon deck saying "The ship...
...sixth month in power, the has-beens have helped put Washington in a mild dither. For one thing, there are more of them around than ever before: three vigorous former Presidents, two former Vice Presidents, six former First Ladies, scores of former Cabinet officers and literally hundreds of their lesser aides and consultants. Some, like Jimmy Carter, have been discreetly silent. Nonetheless, the has-beens form an army of sorts that marches through the hearing rooms. the banquet halls and the panel shows. leaving its public assessments of Reagan and its private disagreements with what he is doing...