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Word: minore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production were on the whole as high as those set by the cast. The costumes, by Anne Hollander, were especially handsome and entirely appropriate to the characters represented. Peter Salisbury's lighting was imaginative, but suffered from uncertain handling. The faults of the production, however, were all minor, and although The Mother of Us All is not the great American opera, it is an unusual and pleasant evenings' entertainment...

Author: By Stephen Addiss and Thomas K. Schwabacher, S | Title: The Mother of Us All | 3/10/1956 | See Source »

Company K was a sardonic minor masterpiece of World War I-a painful punishment drill in the doorless barracks of total recall. Its author, William March, died two years ago at 60. almost unregarded-before his Bad Seed, a tale designed to prove that even children may have murder in their hearts, became a bestseller and a Broadway hit. Now TV's Alistair Cooke, U.S. correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, with a governess' concern to see that U.S. cultural toddlers are cozily wrapped, undertakes the task of explaining March to American readers. Cooke makes a sound observation: March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lonely Sickness | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

Honorable mention went to Landon Young '58 of Adams House for his performance of Beethoven's C-Minor Piano Concerto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pianist, Violinist Tie In Pierian Contest | 2/28/1956 | See Source »

Harold Dahl was an air-age soldier of fortune with a quiet, ingratiating manner, the face of an unappreciated minor poet-and an astonishing talent for oscillating rapidly between the frying pan and the fire, meanwhile eating well and never getting badly burned. He was also a good pilot-and a very lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Soldier of Misfortune | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

This debate is, however, but a minor sign of the conflict in interest. The effect of the metropolitan pattern on an inherently suburban institution can already be seen. It seems inevitable that the problems will grow more serious as Cambridge becomes more a part of the inner metropolitan ring...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Harvard and Tomorrow's Community | 2/25/1956 | See Source »

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