Word: lessers
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...theatre. Under U.S. copyright law, an author of a work has the right to control adaptations, condensations, and translations of his work. Although great legal cases on the subject do not abound, federal statute explicitly gives the author of a performing work control over where, when, and, to a lesser degree, how his wore is performed. For example, Edward Albee recently forced the cancellation of an Arlington, Texas community theatre production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, because Albee opposed the theatre's plan to use an all-male cast...
There were other, lesser leadership shifts last week as the Administration seemed to stumble into the dawn of its last term. Energy Secretary Donald Hodel, a brainy, amiable top aide to former Interior Secretary James Watt, will return to head the Interior Department, taking over for the California- bound Clark. Hodel, in turn, will be replaced at Energy by John S. Herrington, who earned respect as director of personnel at the White House. His departure creates yet another vacancy for Regan to fill in his new job. The Education Department will be headed by William Bennett, chairman of the National...
...after four years he had the world's biggest army and a conflict that cost a million dollars a day. Franklin Roosevelt plunged the nation billions of dollars into debt to ease the Depression and fight World War II. Concern about paying the bills was one of his lesser burdens. It took John Kennedy only a few minutes to decide he could find $40 billion to finance a trip to the moon. Lyndon Johnson's exultation that we could have "guns and butter" was true, though he mismanaged the account...
...thought his assailant had escaped justice. Actually the man served a jail term of four months. When Goetz was 13, his father, a wealthy businessman in Rhinebeck, N.Y., was convicted of sexually molesting two 15-year-old boys. After an appeal, the father pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, disorderly conduct. "One can hypothesize that the trauma his father sustained made him feel very helpless, motivated him to make sure that another such situation would never occur to him," suggested Psychiatrist Bessel Van Der Kolk, director of the Trauma Center of Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston. Perhaps, the psychiatrist...
...invocation, a raising of the worst noonday ghosts of the '30s. He was certainly one of the great fabulists of modern art. But unlike the surrealists, he was not content with the effort to tap into a collective unconscious through the littered cellar of the individual self. And unlike lesser but more popular artists like Marc Chagall, he did not permit himself a moment's slump into nostalgia. Always on the move, the exile with one packed bag under the bed, gazing at a future that was bound to be worse than the past, he retained an uncanny ability...