Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unheard ode in a minor key that sings their passing acquires the rhythm of a funeral march as one realizes that these are the last brave survivors of a dying race. Next year there will be none. The midyear graduate of the future is an impossibility--for degrees are to be granted only in June. From now on the digits will bear no fractional appendages. The present species is the last of a long line. And his heritage is silence...
British Empire. The strong trend of the Dominions is toward increasingly autonomous minor-nationhood, but the Empire continues to be wielded from London by the British Parliament and the Cabinet of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. He, moderate by nature, Conservative by party, is constantly swayed toward reactionary measures by the overwhelming Conservative majority in the House of Commons, and by three dynamic reactionaries in his Cabinet: 1) Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill; 2) Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks; 3) Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead. The foreign policy of the Empire is at bottom tough...
CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE?Eva LeGallienne's able troupe giving good plays for minor prices...
...this, by some consciously & by others unconsciously, was taken into consideration last week when Conductor Ethel Leginska put the Boston Women's Symphony Orchestra through the paces of its first concert. She played Weber's Oberon overture, Frederick Delius's C Minor Concerto, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Tschaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. The overture and the Tschaikovsky fragments were best: the concerto with Pianist Reginald Boardman for soloist was soso; but the splendor of the Beethoven was lost. It had slipped away between individual passages and spread into nothingness. The audience, however, was kind. Loudly...
...BRONZE TREASURY-Edited by Harry Kemp-Macaulay ($3). Thomas Tusser, Soame Jenyns, Richard Yago, Theophile Marzials, Selwyn Image- even the name of the 78 minor poets in this anthology of the obscure, like their lives and their verses, are strange, flimsy and exciting. Author Kemp is sensitive to the fine moments when, for each, mediocre talent burned suddenly with an unsteady brighter flame. He writes their brief biographies with understanding and sympathy, better than he wrote his own and similar biography with its perhaps ironic title, Tramping on Life. For him these not great but very gracious poems have...