Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler would have killed them all"). Said one British official in Jerusalem last week: "The whole effendi class has gone. It is remarkable how many of the younger ones are suddenly deciding that this might be a good time to resume their studies at Oxford . . ." Meanwhile, Arab papers trumpeted minor troop shufflings as major victories. When a detachment of Trans-Jordan's Arab Legion took positions around Jericho (under British commanders), one Beirut paper headlined: ABDULLAH'S ARMY STANDS BEFORE JERUSALEM...
...Racetrack. Young Mattos Rodríguez sold La Cumparsita to a Buenos Aires publisher for 20 gold pesos, lost them at the races next day, later had to pay the money back when his contract with the publisher was voided because he was a minor. That was luck in disguise. In the years that followed, he made enough from La Cumparsita-and other tangos-to stake him to a comfortable life in Paris and free-spending afternoons at many a racetrack...
Last week, in another WQXR sampling of its 4,600 listener "advisory committee," the favorite symphonies were: Beethoven No. 5, Beethoven No. 9, Brahms No. 1, Tchaikovsky No. 6, Beethoven No. 3, Franck D Minor, Beethoven No. 6, Beethoven No. 7, Brahms No. 4 and Tchaikovsky...
...poems were few, full of ironic understatement, salted with a special diction (blending Biblicisms, Latinity. medieval English, Southern idiom) and peppered with paradoxes. Says Harvard's F. 0. Matthiessen: "Some of the best minor poems in our language...
...Fiftieth Anniversary Concert Sunday evening in Sanders Theater, the Chamber Orchestra will continue the policy of presenting lesser known older works, when it performs the Bach Triple Concerto in A-Minor for flute, violin, and piano, and Mozart's Divertimento in D. There is no record of performance for either of these compositions. Also sched- uled on the program are the Handel Oboe Concerto in B Flat and the first performance of Van Slyck's Sonatine for Clarinet and Strings. The orchestra will be under the direction of Van Slyck and the soloists include: Uni Springing, violin; flutist, Lois Schaefer...