Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lowitz has succeeded in a grand manner where we art dealers have been able only to make minor inroads in awakening 20th century Americans to 20th century art. ERNEST RABOFF Los Angeles...
...world's second largest religious order (largest: the Society of Jesus, membership 33,000), wound up their first convention in six years. The scene: Assisi. The 94 friars from 31 countries who met for a two-week General Chapter represented some 30,000 Franciscans, O.F.M. (Order of Friars Minor). Their garb, if not vile, was still mostly the traditional brown, rough cloth and sandals. As for their discourse, it was anything but brief...
Citation: "One of the minor mysteries of modern military history is how even West Point could keep a lieutenant named Maximilian teaching mathematics for eight years only to have him become the youngest four-star general ever...
...Cases, Special Care. In practice, foreign courts have dealt so gently with G.I.s that the U.S. has rarely felt the need to intervene. Of 4,437 American servicemen, dependents and civilian auxiliaries brought to trial in foreign courts in a one-year period, 275 were acquitted, 3,876 got minor fines and reprimands, 178 drew sentences of imprisonment, which the foreign courts forthwith suspended. In all, 108 Americans were imprisoned-a year's total which, considering that it applies to 700,000 men, amounts to a remarkably low crime rate and one of the highest leniency rates...
...story of Dido and Aeneas. The Berlioz libretto is warmed-over Virgal shot through with a Shakespearean flavor (Berlioz described parts of it as "stolen from Shakespeare and Virgilianized"). To give the sprawling work a proper production and still hold it to a manageable 4½ hours (with only minor cuts), Covent Garden prepared lavish sets and drew on all its artistic and mechanical resources. Sir John Gielgud got his first crack at opera direction. Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom (with all six feet of her hair unwound) was cast in the ear-rending role of Dido, Queen of Carthage...