Word: minority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program will open with Mozart's Symphony in A major and close with Mendelssohn's "Scotch Symphony" in A minor...
Johansen, who lives in New York City, prepared for Harvard at the Choate School. In his Freshman year he won minor numerals in soccer and major numerals in track. He succeeds Richard G. Powell as captain...
...Cruelty to Children had his first U. S. tour cut short, and Financier Alfred Corning Clark came to the rescue with $50,000 to subsidize the boy in seclusion until he was 18-Pianist Hofmann and the orchestra performed Rubinstein's shopworn but showy Concerto in D Minor. Still one of the world's great pianists, despite his small hands,* and a brilliant technician who excels at interpreting Chopin, Hofmann next played a group of Chopin solo pieces and many an encore. One of them was the "Minute" Waltz which Hofmann-his humor not deserting him even...
...various authors for ... familiar quotations which have become 'household words.' " By 1891 Bartlett had published nine revisions; the tenth appeared in 1914. Despite its encyclopedic scope, Bartlett's left out Hawthorne, Melville, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, included many forgotten patriots of the Revolutionary War, many forgotten minor poets. Cutting down these, reducing the quotations from Byron and Wordsworth, Editors Morley and Everett have brought in moderns from Archibald MacLeish to William Butler Yeats. Shakespeare still leads with 77 of the 1,126 pages of quotations, the Bible is second with 32 pages...
...Saturday Review of Literature, he gives two pages to William Rose Benet, almost three pages to Stephen Vincent Benet, a half-page each to Editor Bernard De Voto and ex-Editor Henry Seidel Canby, a page to himself. The Morley Bartlett includes enough contemporary wisecracks. ephemeral fragments of minor living poets, to make other future revisions seem likely, but it shows that a few moderns (Thomas Mann, Bernard Shaw, Henry Adams) are as quotable as the giants of the past...