Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MINOR crisis was brewing in the -» tiny British protectorate of Brunei as Paul Hurmuses, TIME'S Hong Kong staff correspondent, paid a visit there last week. The local Sultan, who rules that little nation of former wild men of Borneo, wanted his entire palace air-conditioned. His comely and strong-minded wife insisted that the bedrooms be left free of this 20th century improvement. "Don't worry," an aide whispered, "he'll win her over, but it will take time." For an account of some greater triumphs achieved by the Sultan of Brunei in bringing...
...today, members of the Order of Friars Minor numbers 3,685, up 1,000 since World War II. Many of them are teachers, as are some 40,000 Franciscan lay sisters. Franciscans altogether teach an estimated 1,500,000 U.S. schoolchildren...
Early morning mist had slicked the 8,366-mile road course and added to the possibilities of bloodshed, but in the end there were only a few crashes and minor injuries, and the high speeds killed only the chances of the favored Italian entries. The sleek, swift Ferraris and Maseratis were fast enough to set records all week long in practice runs, but they were not sturdy enough to run so fast so long. In the race itself, the Italians screeched in and out of the pits, getting their cars patched up like overage family jalopies, while five D-type...
...Festival Theatre's artistic director, John Houseman, served as the director of this production. Clearly understanding the special demands of the play, he has avoided all the major pitfalls and most of the minor ones. For the constructive plan of Othello, Shakespeare's most masterly, and most daring, occurs nowhere else in the playwright's works. Othello lacks the usual extraneous trappings and non-essentials. We do not have here scenes of tension or conflict alternating with scenes of "comic relief"; nor do we have any separate sub-plots. Everything is directly related to the main current of the drama...
...despite its few minor flaws, this is a lustrous production of "the greatest work in the world" and ought not to be missed. The drive from Harvard Square to the air-conditioned Stratford Theatre at legal speeds takes just a little over three hours if one uses the new Massachusetts Turnpike and takes Exit 53 from the Wilbur Cross Parkway after New Haven. And the curtain always rises...