Word: minor
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Shrewd Judgment. Couve's distaste for campaigning helped Rocard. What aided him even more was the TV exposure he gained last May as a minor presidential candidate. Though he won only 3.6% of the vote and was eliminated in the first round, Rocard came across as an incisive, articulate and iconoclastic politician. He labeled the Communists "retrograde bureaucrats," denounced the Czechoslovak invasion, demanded that France withdraw from NATO and called for total worker control of private business. In his campaign for the Assembly, Rocard told audiences that France must discard its "model of American capitalism." He also criticized...
...later reported injured, three were treated in Cambridge City hospital, five in the M. I. T. infirmary, two in Mt. Auburn hospital, and five at the NAC medical center. All injuries were minor, including the one girl injured in an auto accident during the demonstration, who was apparently pushed against...
...should be make only minor changes and hope for the best? Yovicsin tried both alternatives at times, and won 5-of-12 games at Harvard with them. This fall with the single wing defunct, things have changed...
...patterns of Cambridge politics: it is a total which political veterans-especially the present City Councilors-will probably be watching closely. At the moment, however, it does not seem that the impact of the rent control issue will be great. There has been councilor-which would amount to a minor relatively little agitation over rent control during the council campaign: registration is actually about 2000 less than in 1967, indicating that the issue has not attracted a flood of new voters...
Anton Bruckner's Overture in G minor proved to be a beautiful small piece. Bruckner belongs to that unhappy group of composers including Liszt. Schmidt, Reger, Vaughan Williams, and even Schoenberg, whose music is fashionably vilified without benefit of humane audition. The tedious and lamentable caricature of Bruckner most often encountered is of an amateurish, even childishly naive, rural organist who afflicted the world with eleven appallingly identical symphonies which are massive, repetitious, incoherent and only convulsively appealing. If he is given any credit at all, which rarely happens since people prefer summary condemnation to critical acceptance of monumental genius...