Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warrents such commercialization. Reliance on ticket sales and unspecified patron donations all too often has forced the country's symphony orchestras to cut-down on concert schedules, to cut-down the players' salaries, and to program concerts to appeal to a wide audience, thereby foregoing the lesser-known though equally deserving works. The Boston Symphony is fortunate in having the satellite Boston Pops (which is composed primarily of Symphony players) to gross a huge annual sum. Through record sales (Arthur Fiedler has sold more records than any conductor in the world), television appearances, cocktail longesque "Evening At Pops", Esplanade concerts...
...speech in bluntest English, insistent Enoch, 64, sent gorges rising again. Speaking to a group of Young Conservatives, he let loose on his favorite topic: there are too many "coloreds" in Britain. This, he predicted, would produce "eventual conflict on a scale which cannot adequately be described by any lesser term than civil war." Warming up to the war metaphor, Powell called skin color "a permanent and involuntary uniform which performs ... the functions of a uniform in warfare, distinguishing one side from the other, friend and foe, making it possible to see at a glance where to render assistance...
Some of the most fascinating chapters are those which deal, not with such high media profile stars as the Beatles, the Stones, Dylan, etc., but with the lesser talked about yet highly influential personalities like Fats Domino, Little Richard, Sam Cooke and B.B. King...
After just 3½ hours, the jury supplied the answer: guilty, but of criminally negligent homicide, a lesser offense than reckless manslaughter. Maximum possible sentence: two years in jail and a $5,000 fine. Her lawyers immediately began considering an appeal, and Longet proclaimed defiantly: "I have too much respect and love for living things to be guilty of this crime...
...many New Yorkers, that tale would have seemed only slightly more bizarre than the melodrama unfolding on their front pages and television screens last week. Rupert Murdoch ?the furry-browed, softspoken, intensely competitive Australian owner of ten major newspapers, 13 magazines and dozens of lesser publications?had no sooner established himself as the owner of the city's only afternoon paper, the Post (circ. 500,000), than he was making a surprise bid to buy control of the New York Magazine Co. New York Founding Editor Clay Felker, meanwhile, canvassed millionaires around the world for help in fighting...