Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wild during a very few appearances last year, Wadsworth has had only minor control problems in his recent starts. His record of four wins against a single loss is easily the best on the Crimson mound-staff...
Furthermore, the Crimson appears to have several fairly strong hitters. Chet Boulris is currently the best of these; his average stands at a high .388. George Harrington is not far behind with .373. Al Martin and John Davis have both been in minor slumps of late, but they are still dangerous batsmen...
...shorter works, Hindemith's "Five Pieces for Orchestra," Op. 44 and Scarlatti's "Sonata a Quattro" in d minor, followed the Bach. The fast parts of both these compositions were well handled by the orchestra. Yet, a more expressive and tender approach seemed in order for the slower Hindemith pieces while more majesty could have been suggested in the second movement of the Baroque "Sonata." The disappointment in these passages seemed to be due to an incomplete understanding of the music on Harbison's part. He continued to emphasize rhythmic vigor when the works really required more attention...
Concubines & Captives. The kingdom on the shores of the Black Sea was nothing special-a minor satellite of the Roman Empire, to which it paid tribute in return for protection. But its young king had grand ideas, first of an independent state, then of empire. Choosing a moment when Rome's legions were preoccupied in Africa and in Gaul, Mithradates built a fleet, gathered an army, and in ten years swept from the northern shore of the Black Sea to the Mediterranean and the fringe of ancient Greece. Naturally enough, the conqueror was indignant when his wife-and-sister...
...last order-and was obediently stabbed to death by a trusted follower. Many a decade would pass before the memory of the King of Pontus faded from Roman minds-and still more decades before the brutish campaigns of the victors were forgotten by the ruined populace of Asia Minor...