Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...body and mind," like flowers in an arrangement, like a bonsai tree. The Japanese examination system subjects the young to purgatories of cramming. It is one more symptom of a densely determined and obligated life, and some of the young these days are escaping into a sort of minor league anarchy...
...Expos have apparently not yet decided where Stenhouse will play. He spent most of the minor league season at first base, though he closed it out with his familiar turf in left field--both spots the Expos are strong at Jim Fanning, who oversees the club's farm organization, yesterday raised the possibility that Stenhouse may play in right field or fill in occasionally at first...
According to James Greenidge. Harvard sports information director, two other Harvard grads are currently in the minor leagues--pitcher Larry Brown '79 and catcher Vinnie Martelli...
...story is slow-moving and predictable at its best, simply tedious and dull at its worst. The characterization is vapid, and not just because the novel's richness is lost in the translation, Enchi restricts herself to describing the hair and skin color or the banal speculations of minor players in the story, ("Strong? Of course she is, but only on one level...") They seem to have no personality, no motivation for their actions, and only Yasuko, under her mother-in-law's spell, can be believable in such a state. The author fails miserably in her attempts to provide...
...minor left-wing Roman Catholic weekly, Témoignage Chrétien (Christian Testimony, circ. 70,000), the President is quoted as giving a startlingly frank analysis of his economic missteps. Philippe Bauchard, the respected financial editor of the Paris-based Europe One radio network and a Témoignage Chrétien contributor, wrote the article mainly from his recollections of a breakfast meeting with Mitterrand on June 28, immediately after the two men had talked, somewhat less candidly, on the air. The ground rules for the post-interview session were never made clear, and Bauchard decided to publish...