Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early 1920s a slim, sensitive novel of egotistic passion called Le Diable au Corps electrified French literary circles. Hailed as a minor masterpiece, the book was translated into nine languages, sold close to 3,000,000 copies, and earned for its precocious author, 20-year-old Raymond Radiguet, a secure place in French literature. Like many another convincingly told work of fiction, Radiguet's novel set many readers wondering how much of fiction was really fact. Nowhere did such speculation reach greater heights than in the Marne River town of Saint-Maur, where Radiguet had lived...
...being dull. It is not to be denied that our poets are dim, even the best of them. Yet this is entirely because they have been taught from earliest childhood that Mr. Eliot believes in Tradition, and that it is better in every way to be a good minor poet than a bad major...
...enough to give the Northwest power aplenty. But on most of them, battles over who shall build the dams, water rights, etc. are blocking construction. One of the most serious fights is between dam builders and conservation groups. So far, conservationists have filed "major" objections to 20 projects, "minor" objections on another 16. Some big projects and their troubles...
...numbers game, issues were obscure, but most Uruguayans went to the polls mumbling 14, 15 or 97. Once out of the booths, they fell avidly to playing dice and roulette right in the open-for Uruguayan law also provides that on election day the police must ignore all such minor crimes as public gambling. In the final count, the Colorados (who have been in power for 89 years) beat the Blancos 387,803 to 266,960, and Batlle Berres easily won the Colorados' factional race...
...Hollywood, Moviemaker Dore Schary predicted that a minor depression would hit his industry when color TV is widely seen in U.S. homes. But Schary expressed no dismay over the threat to movies of current black-and-white TV. Judging by most of last week's shows, he had little to worry about...