Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Theater. The only big names visiting this year are the Jose Limon Company at Brandeis (November 5-7) and Alvin Ailey (February 18-20) and Pilobolus (November 12-14) at the B.U. Celebrity Series. The Celebrity Series often sells out early for names like these, but its concerts of lesser-known, folk-oriented troupes (Ballet Folklorico of Mexioc October 5-6, Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company March 13) are rarely full...
...four subjects--education and educated women, employment and working class women, feminism and suffrage, and the woman and her body--overwhelmingly sought after at the Institute. She says the figures indicate the Library's current resources as well as the drift of public interest, and that some of the lesser studied subjects, like religion, abolition and immigrant women, may be more popular elsewhere...
...HARRISES. The defendant began smiling as the foreman of the jury in the Los Angeles courtroom declared him innocent of six counts of assault with a deadly weapon. He continued to smile as the jury reduced two charges of armed robbery to the lesser crime of "taking a vehicle"-the term usually applied to joyriding. Then William Harris stopped smiling. Harris, 31, and his wife Emily, 29, listened impassively as they were found guilty of two counts of kidnaping and one of armed robbery for incidents connected with the shooting fracas in 1974 at Mel's Sporting Goods Store...
...outdoors-from $540,000 on sales of $25.4 million last year to a thumping $1.7 million in the first three quarters of 1976. Last week, amid talk that the chain was for sale, lawyers for proud old A. & F. trooped sadly into that legal haven of so many lesser merchants, a federal bankruptcy court...
...Other lesser observers have made blatant comparisons. In 1968 The New Republic editorially linked the assassinations of Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus, two reforming fraternal politicians of Rome who lived more than a century before Christ, with the murders of John and Robert Kennedy. At a background briefing for press executives a year before Watergate, Richard Nixon spoke of the "great civilizations of the past, subject to the decadence that eventually destroys the civilization." Nixon went on to speculate that "the U.S. is now reaching that period." Although he agrees with Nixon on hardly any other subject, Novelist Gore Vidal...