Word: minor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Istanbul's Dolmabaghché Palace, from whose mullioned windows one can look out over the Bosporus to Asia Minor, there lay sick abed a medium-sized, lean, 59-year-old man with receding colorless hair and a cultivated, fixed stare. The celebration was held because 15 years ago this soldier-statesman - born simple Mustafa, then called Mustafa Kemal (Perfection), later renamed by Turkey's legislators Kamâl Atatürk (''Perfection, Father of All Turks") - had pronounced: "I decide that Turkey become a Republic with a President...
Broker Dennis advocated severe penalties for radio stations permitting such swing raids. Immediate cause of this protest was a broadcast swing version of Bach's D Minor Toccata. Scolded indignant Mr. Dennis: "By no stretch of the imagination could such performances be tolerated except by people of no discrimination. If this is permitted to go unchallenged, swing renditions of the Mass in B Minor will follow...
...days later election of one-third of the French Senate quietly took place with such minor gains and losses of the various parties that neutral observers figured the uncertain French parliamentary balance had simply been maintained. Outstanding was the personal triumph of Socialist Marx Dormoy, a protégé of Léon ("New Deal") Blum, who won his Senate seat in a smashing victory this week over Rightist Marcel Regnier, a protégé of Pierre ("Hoare-Laval Deal") Laval...
...citizens who stay away from concerts, the best-known high-brow composer now living is probably Russian-born Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninoff. His crashing Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, first introduced to the U. S. in 1898 by his friend Pianist Alexander Siloti, immediately started to outsell Tin Pan Alley's song hits, has rolled up a total of some 5,000,000 copies. In 1909, when 36-year-old Rachmaninoff made his U. S. debut as a concert pianist, the "Flatbush* Prelude," as it was then known, had made his exotic name familiar to U. S. lips...
While it is his ubiquitous Prelude in C-Sharp Minor that has won Rachmaninoff his fame with the public, discriminating concertgoers have long rated him as one of the two greatest living pianists. (The other: Polish-born Josef Hofmann...