Word: minore
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thus all that the cast must do is sing properly some of the loveliest airs ever written, and, with a few minor exceptions, this they all do. There is little to be said about Shirley Jones as Polly Peachum; I can not conceive of the role's ever having been played any better. Jack Cassidy, a bold and dashing Macheath, lacks the noble voice of Miss Jones, but sings most pleasingly. George Irving triumphs as scheming Mr. Peachum; both in his comedy bits and arias he is Peachum as Gay must have envisioned him. Zamah Cunningham as his wife, however...
Author Kaneko has found a pleasant minor subject and has had the good sense to allot it only the significance it deserves. As far as the people of Japan are concerned, Manjiro was indeed The Man Who Discovered America...
Last week, at another by-election in Newport, Monmouthshire, the Tories conducted a campaign designed to correct all the minor faults envisioned at Tonbridge. Big names by the score journeyed down from London to counter local apathy at the polls. The Tory candidate, 39-year old Stockbroker Donald Box, was a local product; his Labor opponent, Sir Frank Soskice, an outsider. The choice between them rested with an electorate whose light Labor majority is well-tempered by a solidly Conservative bloc of prosperous farm owners, shopkeepers and small businessmen. The result: 6,811 fewer voters went to the polls than...
...actually performed, fellow surgeons refuse to criticize Major General Leonard Heaton who operated on the President. On Ike's medical future, professionals vary in their prognostications, but think that the President is in danger of more trouble. The trouble, if it comes at all, could range from occasional minor intestinal distress, through recurrent disabling attacks of diarrhea, low fever and malaise, to a need for more surgery. The course of ileitis is so variable that doctors cannot dogmatize about the outcome of an individual case. Explains Dr. Everett Duane Kiefer of Boston's famed Lahey Clinic: "There...
...mentions a couple of obscure tankers. His peers he dismisses with an evasive shrug. The same weakness can apply to poets. At 60, Robert Graves has come to be recognized as one of the best English poets alive. In this collection of essays and lectures, he faintly praises some minor contemporaries, roundly damns the champs. Some dismissals...