Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...myself," he says. "However, this spring I will give a course in the writing of biography and criticism. A lot of careful thought goes into biographical writing. For instance, how much psychology should one use? I thought I might have the class try writing a composite biography of some minor literary figure. Each student would be assigned two chapters and we would see how it turned...
...first class to pay the $1,400 tuition. Harvard delegated Doriot and Business School Dean Stanley F. Teele to help organize the school, contributed case histories of U.S. companies, arranged to assist in preparing case histories of European companies. To get these, say Harvardmen, will require a minor revolution in European businessmen's traditional aversion to giving out information. But they expect to have no trouble persuading businessmen to cooperate once they see the point...
...four-quarter program, which has been so much discussed, thus seems to have little chance for acceptance. To institute it would probably cause a minor social revolution, at least on the secondary school level, for spreading vacations through the year would change the entire complexion of the student employment situation, now based on the great number of jobs available during the summer when most older workers like to go on vacation. Such a revolution would probably have to occur before any public school system could adopt the proposal on a large scale, for otherwise opposition would be overwhelming...
...odds held fast through the third contestant's rendering of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, and at evening's end the expected announcement was made: 24-year-old Pianist Malcolm Frager was the 2Oth-anniversary winner of the U.S.'s most prestigious instrumental competition, for the Leventritt Award...
...British Motor Corp.'s Austin Seven and Morris Mini-Minor, two "baby cars" that have 34-h.p., four-cylinder engines mounted laterally and front-wheel drive. Capable of 70 m.p.h. top speed, the new ultra-small cars run 45 miles on a gallon of gas, will sell for about...