Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patriarch whose first loyalty was to his clan, wanted Krim to stay at home and follow the traditional Berber way of life. But Krim, determined to share in the new European existence introduced by the French, ran off to Algiers, where he lived with a cousin who was a minor civil servant, learned to read and speak French. Like the great majority of top rebel leaders, he is practically illiterate in Arabic, feels more at home culturally in a French atmosphere than in an Islamic...
...voices that speak for the silent are some 200 Hungarian writers who streamed over the border to exile and freedom; they are currently busy enough to suggest a minor cultural renaissance. In London no fewer than a dozen books on this year's publishing lists are by Hungarians (the most promising: a satire titled How to Be a Communist in 12 Lessons...
...published for the first time under the title Consciousness in Concord, the "lost journal" is a minor tribute to the inspired eccentric that was Henry Thoreau. In miniature, the book shares the fascination of the Journal as a whole, which was somehow conceived as alms for oblivion-Thoreau's bribe to posterity to pay more attention to him than his Concord neighbors and writing peers...
...Sunday, July 6, at 2:30 p.m., the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will perform Bach's B Minor Mass. G. Wallace Woodworth, who retired in June after twenty-five years as conductor of the HGC, will return to lead the Boston Symphony...
While Noah and family were constructing their ark last week, a crew of ballet dancers in goggles and aprons was busy on a Boston stage, pounding together a Victorian-styled spaceship for a nostalgic trip to the moon. The occasion: the U.S. premiere of Jacques Offenbach's minor operetta Voyage to the Moon, based on Jules Verne's yarn. First performed in Paris in 1875, Offenbach's Voyage caused a momentary sensation among premature space bugs, then disappeared from the repertory and has rarely been seen since. The story, as revived by the newly formed Boston Opera...