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It is an inspired solution to the problems that beset publicly funded arts and humanities in the early 1990s.
First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed).
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.
Twenty-five years ago, the French scholar René Etiemble launched his now classic Parlez-vous franglais ? It was the cri de coeur of a single-minded patriot beset by the idea that the purity of his mother tongue was being corrupted by the Anglo-maniac leanings of his countrymen.
He recommends that a young man beset by impure thoughts should drive them way by plunging his "racial organ" into icy water.