Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played a prominent role in last week's production, again stumbles and stutters through a performance. Mr. Kennedy should be informed that nothing makes an audience more uneasy than an actor fumbling for his lines. It reeks of incompetence or laziness. The remainder of the cast, distributed among the lesser roles, would benefit from several more courses in voice and movement...
With the Apollo lay two lesser but still important finds: a bronze Muse from the era of Praxiteles and a fifth century marble column with the head of Hermes. Archaeologists speculate that an exporter may have warehoused the statues for shipment to Imperial Rome some time during the Augustan Age. and then lost track of them. At week's end four new finds were reported, including a bronze shield covered with bas-reliefs. Feverish digging continued. The street may yield more still...
...scandals involving teenagers: five boys were sent back to the U.S. after an 18-year-old Japanese girl accused them of rape, and one American girl was packed home after allegedly spending 4½ days in a hotel with a Japanese man. But each week brings its share of lesser incidents. The children rip up school buses, delight in throwing things out of the windows. "One day," says Johnstone, "a school bus passed me belching smoke from every window. All the kids were smoking. And as I watched bug-eyed at the sight, a shower of peach pits descended...
...surest measure of the new sluggers comes from Washington's small-fry fans. In the free-trading market of bubble-gum baseball cards, a single Mantle or Ted Williams used to command seven lesser players. Last week a card-swapping youngster firmly announced the new prices: "I'll give 20 for one of Killebrew." What about Allison? "Twenty, too," he said, "but nobody...
...Noah of modern times is the natural scientist. As the human deluge threatens to drown the lesser species, he cries his warning: Man is a part of nature; destroy nature and you destroy man. His ark is the archive in which he stores the species and records their curious lore; in recent years, many a neo-Noah has splashed a bright coat of paint on his scholarly scow and invited the general public along for the ride. Germany's Herbert Wendt (In Search of Adam) is a skillful skipper for this sort of trip, and he brings his passengers...