Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steady diet of cops and robber and minor catastrophes, the public instead of edification during the news hour. Fed a healthier diet, low in drama and sensationalism, the average viewer could develop more refined taste...
...surgery and the implantation of lenses. But the most popular procedure is radial keratotomy, in which a series of fine spokelike incisions are made on the cornea to correct myopia. In a recent two-month period, boasts Fyodorov, 20 institute surgeons handled 1,600 such operations "with only four minor complications." The treatment, which he helped develop, is still controversial...
Among the current cases: Father Mel Baltazar of Boise was sentenced to seven years in prison last January for lewd conduct with a 15-year-old boy. Father David Boyea of White Lake, Wis., goes on trial this month on three felony charges involving minor boys. Rhode Island Priest P. Henry Leech is scheduled for an August trial on eight such charges, and in that same state Priest William O'Connell, who was already facing 24 charges relating to perhaps twelve or more youths, was arraigned last week on two additional counts. In San Diego, Monsignor Rudolph Galindo, former rector...
Barbara Pym was the Cinderella of the previous literary decade. Having achieved a minor reputation in England during the '50s, she could not find a publisher in the '60s when London took to swinging. All that changed in 1977, three years before her death, when the Times Literary Supplement ran a feature on neglected writers. Philip Larkin and David Cecil, both authors of mighty clout, independently singled out Pym. Overnight, it seemed, her books were not only available but on the best-seller lists, and she had the kind of loyal following that usually requires years to build...
...problem is not merely that the upper middle class's voracious enthusiasm for art of almost any kind "coincides" with the inflation of minor talents into major ones, of mere promise into claims on art history. It is that the one has produced the other. In the process, too many painters have been left without a middle ground between the miseries of oblivion and the stresses of cultural stardom. Hence fame depends, to a grotesque and absurd extent, on painters' ability to excite envy among their rivals, and the sense of common reciprocity that pervaded the art world...