Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Athletic Director Bingham's refusal to give 200 tickets to Phillips Brooks House for use by settlement-house boys raised a minor flurry of indignation last week, and the news that the decision has been reversed did not entirely remove the distinctly unpleasant taste from most people's months. The indignation was unnecessary, for the HAA's premature and apparently ogre-like refusal was conditioned only by the lack of some sort of assurance that the plan was well-organized...
France, their strength did not come from deserting Communists. Instead, it sprang from deserting rightists (Guglielmo Giannini's Qualunquists, et al.), attracted by the Christian Democrats'newly firm anti-Communist line. The "People's Bloc" of Communists, left-wing Socialists and assorted minor parties more than held its own with 208,000 votes...
Bach: Mass in B Minor (RCA Victor Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 34 sides). For those who have waited patiently for Victor to replace its old, scratchy set of this momentous work, this one makes the wait worthwhile. Performance: excellent...
...Minor disturbances marked other Dartmouth appearances in Boston, and hotel lobby riots sprung up in the Twenties. With the advent of the Thiries, however, this type of deviltry disappeared; and by 1940, one hotel manager reported that "we never have any trouble," while a nightclub owner declared, "Hell, they don't make no trouble and they don't drink much. Of course, we always find a few beer cans around in the inner court the next morning...
...Love" Metro has avoided all of these faults. The music is played well, if without much verve, by Artur Rubinstein, and there is lots of it. The film opens with a huge chunk of Loszt's E flat concerto, and later developments weave in all of Brahms' splendid G minor rhapsody, parts of his first symphony, Schumann's A minor concerto, and a good many smaller piano fragments...