Word: minority
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...singleminded. In order to persuade Pete's Little League manager to let the boy switch-hit, the father promised not to take Pete away on the family's summer vacations. "I never set foot out of Cincinnati," Rose says uncomplainingly, "until I went off to the minor leagues." Rather than allow summer school to intrude on a baseball season, Pete's father made him repeat the tenth grade. "My dad and I lived sports together. We were playing basketball together in 1970 the night before he had a heart attack and died...
...bombardment, the Kremlin brusquely warned Israel that the Soviet Union could not be indifferent to what was going on in the Middle East. But at a time when efforts to end the Israeli encirclement of West Beirut were reaching a critical stage, the message from Moscow seemed a minor diplomatic footnote. If anything, it only underscored one of the more curious aspects of the war in Lebanon: the Soviet Union's unwillingness-or inability-to offer credible support to its battered friends in the area. Says a senior official of the Palestine Liberation Organization: "We have stopped thinking about...
...conclusion. I should never be able to . . . hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever. All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point?a woman must have money and a room...
Apart from the lustrous leading players, each major-minor role is played in stellar fashion. Stephen Moore makes of Bertram's boon companion, Parolles, a pompous, endearing rogue and braggart, a mini-Falstaff. The countess's clown (Geoffrey Hutchings) is Lear's fool, in wit though not in pathos. And Robert Eddison, as adviser to the King, is an elegant paradox, a wise Polonius...
Most of the remaining players loved being back in church, and many said so unabashedly. Centre Court is not much to look at, sort of a minor-league Fenway Park, dark green and full of splinters, but some people imagine stained-glass windows. "I enjoyed even losing," said Evonne Goolagong Cawley, who "happened to win Wimbledon in 1971" at the age of 19 and "thought nothing of it." But she was blessed to repeat two years ago. "I could appreciate it then, actually enjoy it," she said. "During my pregnancies, I did all the things I'd missed...