Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls sitting in the front row were also injured by the blast, receiving minor cuts on their faces and legs. Included in the casualty list was a boy in the back row, who, after requesting a glass of water to steady his nerves, turned pale and fainted...
...minor-league monopoly, Caribbean baseball was too good to last. Major leaguers looked enviously toward the south. And major-league managers quickly recognized that the off-season workouts would do their players no harm. For the last seven years Caribbean Confederation teams have been allowed to recruit big-league players. To give the bushers a break, each big-league club is permitted to send only three players who have been on the roster more than 45 days...
Above the spray of white gladioli appeared the plump, beaming face of the pastor, the smile serving as a minor sun to the shining flowers. For a moment he stood silently, "just loving the audience," as he once put it. Then the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale began to preach. He had preached the same theme many times before, not only from the pulpit but at countless business-club lunches, on TV, in newspaper columns, magazine pieces, and in a book (The Power of Positive Thinking) which has been at the top of the bestseller lists for almost two years...
Weak Faith. These advances have followed a pattern which Couturier eloquently urged. Churches, he argued, should commission the very best artists available, and not quibble over the artists' beliefs. His reasoning: "Where traditions are still living traditions, minor artists are enough to insure the continuous production of whatever art religion may require. But . . . to effect a revival of liturgical art it would be safer to turn to geniuses without faith than to believers without talent." Couturier missed one point: the improvising geniuses of an age weak in formal faith can scarcely be expected to rival those of the distant...
...BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI, by Pierre Boulle (224 pp.; Vanguard; $3), is a superb, ironical study of a minor British Don Quixote who insists on fighting for code and country-even though it is yesterday's code of yesterday's officers and gentlemen. When Colonel Nicholson is captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore, he tries to hand over his pistol with an air of "quiet dignity," having earnestly practiced the gesture. But he is allowed no dignity at all: the Japanese order him to build a railroad bridge. Huffing and puffing about the Hague...