Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a question of stars. It is the minor actors too. Taken together, they give a picture of American life that is varied, sometimes silly, sometimes worse than silly, but that is less silly than people pretend and is very seldom as silly or as dull or as misleading as Pétain...
...pneumonia, pleurisy and complications; at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. A musician of aristocratic, old-world habits and conservative tastes, he wrote three operas, three symphonies, four piano concertos, countless oft-performed songs and piano pieces, was probably best known for his ubiquitous Prelude in C Sharp Minor (the "Flatbush" Prelude). Son of a captain in the Russian Imperial Guards, gaunt, towering Sergei Rachmaninoff was a close friend and protégé of the late great Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, made his first reputation as a conductor of the London Philharmonic and of the Imperial Grand Theater of Moscow...
Newspapers vigilantly protect their cherished Constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press. Occasionally some abuse that freedom. Such an abuse occurred in California last week as the incidental result of a minor auto accident...
...combined Radcliffe and Harvard choirs had a bare three weeks of rehearsal behind them; the baritone soloists had three days. Yet the technical difficulties of the music had all been mastered, the opening dissonance was clean, the final "We Hear Liberty" rang out, and with very few and minor exceptions the performance was all that could have been expected. There was no lack of smoothness, maturity, etc, by the non-professional choruses "to be made up by their vigor . . . their driving energy . . . their sincere desire to please 'Koussy' and the audience." The music itself is angular, rough, forceful, enthusiastic. Particular...
Fogg Art Museum has prepared itself for possible air raids by rearrangement of storage areas, minor alterations of the building, and the setting up of protective shields to guard valuable art objects from fire and flying fragments, Edward W. Forbes, director, stated in his annual report...