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But Haskell damns all efforts to make Tiepolo a painter for our time: "[We] are most reluctant to admit that the finest art can flourish in harmony with the ruling classes and without the tensions that beset us now, so that, where necessary, we try to detect such tensions in the art of the past."
Although economic problems continued to beset the young democracy, the political scene was greatly stabilized.
The Balearics, further neglected, were beset with poverty and outbreaks of disease.
News and World Report , say, tell the Baltimore Sun that for a guy who's been marinated in money, Dubya seems particularly beset by plural articles and singular verbs.
In the latest report of IRS mishaps, the LA Times fronts the agency's sheepish acknowledgment that it has been treating 630,000 taxpayers to special natural-disaster-area privileges, even though most haven't been beset by any natural catastrophes at all.