Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other diseases may have taken a greater toll of human life, but none has spread more terror than the Black Death. In the 14th century, plague reached from Asia through Asia Minor to Europe, where it killed 25 million people (one in four by conservative estimate, perhaps one in three). Three centuries later the rat-borne scourge devastated London, killing 70,000 -one-sixth of the population. Then it lay relatively dormant, taking a regular annual toll in parts of Asia where it was endemic. In 1896 it burst out of South China, through the port of Hong Kong. From...
...performance of Norma. At the final curtain she took ten solo bows. The true measure of how totally Callas dominated last week's Traviata was the credibility she brought to the younger Dumas' tears-and-champagne tale of the consumptive courtesan-with scant help from a minor-league cast. As Alfredo, Tenor Daniele Barioni sang powerfully but uncertainly and sometimes off-key, acted in an emotional monotone that made his rages indistinguishable from his passions. In his U.S. debut, Italian Baritone Mario Zanasi displayed a smooth, ample voice but made his Germont pompous and wooden where he should...
...about music. This apparently self-destructive ambition is prompted by Keller's belief that emotions slip through the loom of language like herring through a cargo net. Keller's solution: analysis by music instead of by words. His criticism of Mozart's String Quartet in D Minor (K. 421) broadcast last week from Hamburg, convincingly demonstrated that a few snatches of music, pointedly juxtaposed, can make a sharper comment on a composition than a column of critical prose...
...series of interludes after each movement; in the case of the Mozart Quartet, the original piece takes about 30 minutes, the interludes 17 minutes. Their effect is like looking at a painting, then watching a series of lantern slides of different portions of the painting, stripped of minor embellishments and arranged to stress the picture's harmonies and tensions...
Left with little more than the small change of his existence, Floyd spends it on the minor characters with whom Author Hauser has rounded out her novel. Among them: a booze-prone church organist who bikes his empties out into the country rather than stash the incriminatory bottles in his ash barrel; a lady reincarnationist who believes she once dined with a Pharaoh; the town's Mary Magdalene with whom Floyd finds it sweet to sin. These and other forlorn rebels form a kind of Freudian chorus attesting the ego-twisting power of convention...