Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometimes wore fingerless gloves while he played, sang along with the music, and sat on a stool so low that he could touch the keyboard with his nose. Before a performance of the Brahms D minor piano concerto, Conductor Leonard Bernstein turned to the audience and made a short speech, dissociating himself from his soloist's unorthodox view of the piece. At his Cleveland Orchestra debut in 1957, he tangled with the irascible maestro George Szell over his use of the soft pedal in a Beethoven concerto; Szell never performed with him after that, but saluted: "That...
...Security Adviser under Gerald Ford and sometime consultant on arms control to the Reagan Administration: "The Geneva talks won't get far. If the U.S. refuses to put SDI (the Strategic Defense Initiative) on the table, the Soviets have the option of making a scene or agreeing to a minor, second-rate treaty...
...what appeared to be a minor concession, the Pretoria government last week released five of eleven black leaders who were detained without charges in the past three months. The remaining six, however, are expected to be charged under the country's Internal Security Act with subversion, treason or promotion of an unlawful organization. The maximum penalty: a life sentence or death. In a further indication of its tough mood, the government last week arrested two of three anti-apartheid activists as they left the British consulate in Durban after seeking sanctuary in the building for 91 days. They...
...sirens that sound two or three times a week are usually minor alarms. "If someone falls down the stairs, an alarm goes off," says Plant Spokesman Dick Henderson. "It's just our way of communication." But real emergencies in the valley have occurred. Chemical plant explosions have killed 14 people since 1941. At various other times over the past 17 years, thousands of residents have had to evacuate their homes because of lethal gas leaks. In 1978, one plant worker in Institute was hospitalized and 88 others were examined by doctors after a leak of phosgene...
...judges, each from a different country, are paid $82,000 a year and serve nine-year terms. In practice, however, the court is one of the least productive legal institutions around: in nearly four decades of existence it has reviewed only 49 cases, most of them involving minor issues like boundary disputes and fishing rights. Of the 159 member nations of the U.N., only 47 have accepted the court's compulsory jurisdiction. All but seven of them have provisions in their declarations of support for the court that allow them to ignore the body if it suits them...