Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Triomphe, another minor embarrassment waited. Amid a group of Tricolor-waving veterans who attended the memorial ceremony, a member of a Jewish veterans association raised a flag emblazoned with the Star of David in support of Soviet Jews. The protester was gently but firmly hustled away. At a follow-up reception in the capital's imposing city hall, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac told Gorbachev that "French public opinion would appreciate it" if the Soviet Union made a "gesture" in favor of Jews who wished to leave the country...
...their mettle. Where the Wild Things Are, a 45- minute opera with music by British Composer Oliver Knussen and sets, costumes and libretto by Sendak, received its American stage premiere two weeks ago at the Minnesota Opera in St. Paul. Like the book, the opera promises to become a minor classic...
What must have started as an appeal to street-wise pacifists, SOMBJAF thrives as hipper-than-thou funkadelia and constitutes the wittiest attack on U.S. arms policy since Tom Lehrer. A solid achievement when you recall that, at high voltages, Clinton has been known to inflict minor seismic damage. An amazing achievement considering how top-heavy the record might have sounded due to its immense cast of extras--30 background singers, 10 keyboard players and an array of drum-related, beat-box soloists...
...time of these revelations, we had decided to be roommates. We had built up a little circle of friends that made us happy. Almost every night, we would sit around, drink vodka and smoke too many cigarettes, and swap exaggerated stories like minor-league Twains. In my words, he had appealed to me in a way that few people can to any one individual. In his words, we were brothers...
...fair, Loury is in some respects morally indistinguishable from his liberal counterparts, since they too presuppose the moral validity of corporate capitalism. Differences where they do exist, are generally more on matters of technique and management. As a rule, elite academics can be bought cheaply. Loury is a minor footnote in this tradition. He is therefore a symptom of our malaise. And for that reason we must look elsewhere for examples of moral integrity and new intellectual leadership...