Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UNUSUAL for small regional dance companies to generate the same level of excitement that groups like the New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater generally bring. It is all the more noteworthy, then, when one of the lesser known companies presents something truly original and creative...
Similarly, the "accused" is not receiving as lesser punishment just because the details of the case are not revealed. Professor Dominguez's name has continued to appear in The Crimson and I doubt very much that at this point, he is under "no pressure" to "alter his behavior." The Government Dept.'s action and the unwanted publicity surrounding the case are, I'm sure, more than enough to "pressurize" anybody into mending his ways...
Picasso was the most influential artist of his own time; for many lesser figures a catastrophic influence, and for those who could deal with him-from Braque, through Giacometti, to de Kooning and Arshile Gorky-an almost indescribably fruitful one. Today such a career seems inconceivable. No one even shows signs of assuming the empty mantle. If ever a man created his own historical role and was not the pawn of circumstances, it was that Nietzschean monster from Malaga...
Many of the rebels, of course, were in prison for violent and ugly crimes; many were there for lesser offenses. Yet by and large, at Attica they were treated without distinction, as numbers or niggers or animals to be caged. Most penologists point out that the key to dealing with inmates is to know them-and their leaders-well. In the end, the major failure at Attica may be that the authorities simply did not know what the desperate men behind their walls really wanted, thought or felt...
...slap in the face that underscored Korea's weakness in the international arena and its continued dependence on the U.S. and, to a lesser extent, Japan. It is difficult for Koreans to believe that the Russians would have attacked a passenger jet from a more powerful nation such as the United States...