Word: minor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steve Allen will host the series of summertime music festivals, with "Casals in Puerto Rico" coming first. Ninety-two-year-old Cellist Pablo Casals conducts Mozart's Symphony No. 38 in D Major ("The Prague") and Brahms' Concerto in A Minor for violin, cello and orchestra, with Yehudi Menuhin and Leslie Parvas...
LETTERS FROM ICELAND, by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice. A minor masterpiece, written in 1936 when two talented, ir reverent young poets knocked about above the tree line and put time...
...Sheppard, who was managing editor of Book Week before he came to TIME in 1967, is also an ardent Nabokov fan. "Ever since I first read one of his books," says Sheppard, "I have thought of him as a man apart. He makes it easy to tell who the minor writers...
This last is just the sort of phonetic parallel Nabokov relishes. Similarly, he is fond of insisting that, with minor adjustments for Julian and Gregorian dating systems, he shares an April 23 birth date with William Shakespeare. But then, he adds, "So does Shirley Temple...
...Horne seem at once endlessly old and miraculously preserved, as if they were waiting for a revelation. Death of a Gunfighter is not it. In a town settling into the 20th century, stallions mix with horseless carriages and Mazda bulbs compete with gaslight. The contrast of periods is minor compared with the clutch of anachronisms offered by the script. Among them: police brutality, strained race relations, the lowly role of the Jew in society, adolescent sex, and finally the message, delivered by the county sheriff: "Frank Patch is your conscience, and you're afraid...