Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dutifully Covre made the rounds again, endured the usual waits and misunderstandings with minor officialdom. Returning one day from a five-hour wait at the price control office, he found angry customers waiting at his shop. He had never kept anyone waiting before. The customers canceled several orders...
Bach: Concerto In D Minor for Two Violins (Jascha Heifetz with the RCA Victor Chamber Orchestra, Franz Waxman conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Both violin parts are played by Heifetz, who recorded each part separately and then matched them. Stunting with Bach is asking for trouble, but Heifetz carries it off pretty well. Recording: excellent...
Bach: Sacred Arias (Carol Brice, contralto, with the Columbia Broadcasting Concert Orchestra, Daniel Saidenberg conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). The Agnus Dei and Qui Sedes from the B Minor Mass, and two arias from the Magnificat, warmly sung by a Negro of considerable talent, who is not yet a Marian Anderson. Recording: good...
Revolution. Despite such minor setbacks, the style revolution rolled on. It had been too carefully planned to be stopped by such molehills as unorganized scoffers or individual critics. When wartime clothing restrictions were abandoned a year ago, designers had cautiously lowered hems a bit. This excited so little interest that the $4 billion women's clothing industry, one of the biggest in the U.S., fell into a frightening slump this spring. Orders in many lines fell off as much as 60% (some of this was due to manufacturers' waiting for fabric price cuts that never came). Obviously, what...
Peacock's short, genially satirical novels established him as one of England's minor novelists. There had been nothing like them before, but there was to be something like them later; Aldous Huxley, Norman Douglas, H. H. ("Saki") Munro and Evelyn Waugh would acknowledge their debt...