Word: minority
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey and Earl Warren pitched their speeches in organ tones. They were calm, forgiving and even humble. They both quietly stated one main issue: it was time for a new broom. There were other minor issues. But this was the big one. After 16 years of one party, it was time to clean house...
...there were outcries from the political fringe. Both the Dixiecrats and the Progressives, certain that they would poll sizable votes, were aroused; they were far from amiable, and the issues they raised might be serious enough to cause some permanent political realignments. But between now and election day, those minor voices would recede into a distant, thin scream which would be pretty well drowned out. The major candidates would occupy the center of the stage...
...living interpreter-Pianist Artur Schnabel. They had seen Mozart's operatic masterpieces, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan Tutti, given with polish by a company that is fast becoming the best in the business-Britain's Glyndebourne. They had heard superlative choral works, including Bach's B Minor Mass, sung by a chorus with few peers-the Huddersfield Choral Society...
...years Southworth was out of baseball; but by 1935 he was on his way back via the minor leagues. In 1940, a changed Billy became manager of the Cards for the second time. This time he treated his ballplayers with almost fatherly solicitude (his own son was later killed in a B-29 crash), kept pace with their problems on & off the field. Under Southworth, the Cards won three consecutive pennants, two World Series. In 1945, Billy left St. Louis for a fat offer from the "Three Steamshovels," as Boston calls the rich contractors who own the Braves. The team...
MacLeish's job with UNESCO ended last year and he retired, at 55, to the life of "a private citizen and a practicing poet." The results, so far as verse is concerned, are certainly minor, still echoing the big, pretentiously philosophical tones for which his poetic equipment is essentially unsuited, but here & there MacLeish is at home again with the private emotions that he can make ring true. Chief among such emotions is something that some synthetically tough "intellectuals" have decried as nostalgia, as if the muses were not forever daughters of memory, or as if there were something...