Word: minored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scope of Gorbachev's reforms and the vigor with which they are being pursued indicate that they are not merely a Potemkin village of minor improvements designed for foreign consumption. Standing before the Central Committee last month, Gorbachev irrevocably put his political future on the line in favor of principles that sound like those the West has always championed: economic freedom, individual rights and private initiative...
Blackmun's Washington office had said Friday that Blackmun was recuperating from minor hernia surgery at his vacation home in Wisconsin. His office said he had been swimming and had taken walks after the hernia surgery and made no mention of cancer...
...with the force of something new. But its most important function is to link his work with two currently disused narrative traditions. One is that of the naturalistic novel, which insists on locating characters within a detailed rendering of their world, forcing the reader to recognize that the seemingly minor incidents of life reveal the workings of vast, elemental forces. The other, astonishingly enough, is Greek drama, in which the psychological intimacy among characters is irrelevant, since their destinies are determined by the workings of blind fate. Though naturalism is the controlling mode of Jean de Florette, audiences should bear...
While acknowledging that Barbie was a comparatively minor figure in the Nazi hierarchy, Truche accused him of cruelty far beyond the line of duty. "Was it necessary to strike Madame Lise Lesevre 19 times when he already knew she was in the Resistance?" the prosecutor demanded. "Was it necessary to deport her husband and son, who were not in the Resistance?" Truche pointed out that Barbie did not need to arrest 44 Jewish children in one school and have them shipped to Nazi death camps. Nor was it necessary to send 650 people, including a dozen children, to camps...
...Robert Morris' party last night. Was Garrulous George the "influential Virginian" who was "privately pressing for compromise"? Madison turned to the editorial page. There George Shrill, his favorite neoroyalist columnist, was quoting Thucydides in the original Greek to argue that the 13 states needed the firm hand of a minor German princeling as monarch to quell "the unseemly clamor of mobocracy." A gossip item on the entertainment page provided Madison with his only chuckle of the morning: a Harrisburg film producer claimed to have signed Ben Franklin to portray God in an upcoming comedy...