Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sherman brothers' rather bland musical score is for the most part tolerable, even though many of the lyrics seem womewhat stilted and pointless. The indefinite and indecisive nature of the music itself (is it supposed to be Dixieland or isn't it?) reminded this listener of much of the lesser material found in Disney's Mary Poppins, an earlier Sherman-Sherman songwriting opus...
Typical of how widespread are European suspicions was a proposal made by Rumania's President Nicolae Ceausescu in May that lesser countries on both sides might have to band together to avoid becoming the hapless victims of the two superpowers. Though the idea struck Italians as overly suspicious then, TIME Correspondent Jordan Bonfante now reports that "since the summit and Helsinki there seems to be a new wave, or at least a sizable ripple, of comparable misgivings among the Italians...
...Inability to unite. European nations complain that they are being treated separately and as lesser powers by the U.S. But they have failed to get together in a united Western Europe grouping that might deal on more nearly equal terms with the superpowers and maintain its own united nuclear force...
...network of ratios between height and width, void and solid, expressed in the façades of Villa Cornaro and Villa Malcontenta, subtly prepares the visitor for the less consciously felt proportions of the rooms within. For there was nothing improvised in Palladio. His plans-always axial, with lesser rooms grouped symmetrically around a high hall-obey stringent rules of harmony, not only in the three dimensions of each room, but in the relation of chambers one to another...
Behind the Manhattan windows of brokerage houses, insurance firms, advertising agencies and publishing companies, Korda finds lesser men huddling. They suppress women, he says, not from arrogance but out of various forms of sexual fear...