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...coauthored a book entitled None of the Above. Said Leon: "I don't vote because I don't want to force a second-class decision on my neighbors." To propagate his views, Leon has been handing out bumper stickers by the scores. One of them reads: THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS IS EVIL...
Unlike other track and field teams, the cross-country focuses on one event, and the Radcliffe team's surplus talent has scared off less talented runners. "People of lesser caliber were discouraged by this factor when we held our early practices," Hunt says...
Orbiting about their two centers of gravity, the reporters assumed positions of lesser constellations, but with some star shine of their own and a great deal of reflected light. Election day plucked them from their brilliant night sky, returning them once again to the earth they left many months ago, to walk among the lesser mortals who had appeared before as just a blurry mass below. Perhaps when they wake from their well-deserved rest, some will pause for a moment to contemplate the election results (they, too, must have cared who won) and reflect upon their part...
...volume, Echo's Bones. And with almost the excitement of a new gadget from Popeil, the anthology boasts a new play, That Time (1975), published here for the first time. Seaver doesn't overemphasize the short period of Beckett's greatest productivity, 1946-1950, at the expense of the lesser known previous works. Naturally, this earlier fiction, depending more on conventional plotting and narrative line, suffers more by the ellipsis--only the first three chapters of Murphy, a novel that is actually going somewhere, are printed. But it is a necessary bridge in understanding the coherence of Beckett's development...
Some students said they chose Carter over Ford as the lesser of two evils. "I voted for Carter, not because I think much of him as a candidate," Nina Drayton '79 said last night. Carter was preferable to Ford in the White House, she said...