Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help her through a dull and disappointing marriage, and it was not very long before young Bernard admitted "knowing much more about music than any of the great composers." He talked his way into a critic's job with a promise not to "write about Bach in B minor . . . I purposely vulgarized musical criticism, which was then [1888] refined and academic to the point of being unreadable...
...first child, but some were up to their third or fourth or more. He separated the men into Group A, with 17 cases whose problems he rated as serious (seven of the men were unmarried), and Group B, with 14 men whose difficulties were similar in kind but minor in degree. In addition, he compared these groups with 24 expectant fathers who were not referred to him and were supposedly normal-though it turned out that they, too, had their problems...
...dazzling demonstration of what the name Disney can do. In the guise of entertainment, the show consisted of a 90-minute commercial for Disney's newest commercial enterprise. By comparison, CBS's Frankie Laine Time (Wed. 8 p.m., E.D.T.) was merely a minor, 60-minute disappointment. The summer replacement for Godfrey is a variety show, with Frankie singing and acting as host. But the acts were uniformly mediocre, and Frankie, whose singing is stylized, lacked style...
...this minor skirmish grows an increasing uproar that causes the ruin of Dr. Charles Boyer, titular head of the clinic, disrupts the budding romance between Widmark and Bacall, drives most of the inmates into an all-night binge, and sends hysterical John Kerr off to the river, bent on suicide. By this time, moviegoers have difficulty distinguishing the sane from the unbalanced...
Read last week by Russell, under the glare of television lights in London's Caxton Hall, it said: "We are speaking on this occasion not as members of this or that nation, continent or creed, but as human beings ... The world is full of conflicts, and, overshadowing all minor conflicts, the titanic struggle between Communism and antiCommunism. Almost everybody who is politically conscious has strong feelings about one or more of these issues; but we want you, if you can, to set aside such feelings and consider yourselves only as members of a biological species . . . The best authorities...