Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upon the discovery that my identification did not allow me to be in the Russian zone, my People's Policeman conducted me unceremoniously to the police station. There I was put through a minor third-degree. After about an hour, I was taken to a barracks on the edge of a park. There the questioning began in earnest. How many American soldiers are there in Italy? Did I come from a rich family? Who paid for my studies and travel in Europe? What about the Nazis in South America? What about Guatemala? What do the people in West Berlin...
Last week police felt they had an airtight case against the Sotgius for inciting to prostitution and corruption of a minor. But when they visited the Sotgius' apartment, they found that the couple had fled. Rome's fascinated newspaper readers promptly labeled Giuseppe Sotgiu a "collectivist of love." Plainly embarrassed, the Rome section of the Communist Party banned Provincial Council President Sotgiu from all party activities until he took steps "fully to restore his honor as a citizen...
NOTHING, it seems, can stop the slow westward drift of Western art. Its center has passed inexorably, though with innumerable minor eddies, from Athens to Rome to Paris. Now it is shifting westward once again, to Manhattan...
Director Richard Brooks has played every scene at such a high plateau of emotions that the major ones can hardly be distinguished from the minor. Van Johnson, well-known for his engaging smile, is admirably miscast as a struggling writer. All he can do is screw up his face a little more as each scene reaches new heights of emotional seriousness. By the grand climactic scene, when he goes to his dead wife's sister to plead for the return of his baby girl, the grimace has reached Hallowe'en proportions. "I gotta have 'er back," he pleads, "because...
Long before Beck was razed, Claverly had captured its prestige, for after the "Institute of 1770" moved its initiations from Beck to Claverly, the Mt. Auburn St. structure became so popular that freshmen, to live there, had to compete in an election. A minor reason for Claverly's appeal, of course, was the fact that Yard dormitories offered neither central heating nor plumbing above the basement. Although suites in Claverly were expensive--some nearly $1,000 an academic year--the swimming pool, personal attendants, and telephone system made living there attractive to wealthy young gentlemen...