Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senators, all but one are or have been Congressmen. The one: Colorado's Gordon Allott, 47, whose light, as lieutenant governor, has been hidden under the bushel-basket showmanship and popularity of retiring Governor Dan Thornton. Allott, a liberal Republican and onetime Stassen-for-President booster, scored a minor upset by trouncing ex-Congressman John Carroll. Among the other senatorial newcomers...
Mendès stalked to the rostrum. Tight-lipped and curt, he announced that he was making the approval of this minor item a matter of confidence, and staking his government on the outcome. What was more, he warned he would repeat this procedure as often as necessary to get the budget voted on time...
...grain merchant's son, born in Picardy, Matisse began a stumbling art apprenticeship at 20. He studied for a while under Adolphe Bouguereau (a sort of defrosted Ingres) and then under the minor painter and great teacher Gustave Moreau. He practiced and trained and worked, for as he was to tell his own students years later, "One must learn to walk firmly on the ground before one tries the tightrope." To support himself, he tried copying masterpieces in the Louvre-and learned to his dismay that the wives and daughters of the museum guards were better copyists than...
...elections. The name of Thomas E. Dewey, outgoing governor of New York, does not appear on the official casualty lists for November 2. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., lame-duck congressman from that state, lost out in what must seem to many as nothing more than a minor skirmish. But last week's New York elections mark a decisive turning point in the political careers of these two men, and the repercussions are likely to be felt in national politics for a good many years to come...
Handel has provided a veritable dictionary of musical rhetoric in which expressiveness is attained via articulation and in which major and minor scales and dominant harmony still evoke all the necessary emotional resonances in the listener. Mr. Greenebaum seems not to have scrutinized a single one of the phrasing patterns in the work. The thunderous 32nd notes in the introduction were played too slowly and without the indicated rest beforehand. Not even in syncopated rhythms was the uniform level of long bowings varied. The last movement was indeed played with a bright and appropriate staccato, but Mr. Greenebaum...