Word: minority
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...beginning lines of the Tcherepnin recall the first theme of the second movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4--fluid and passionate. The notes move stepwise, with many minor seconds--the smallest interval between consecutive notes in Western music. After a short figure that resembles a melody from On the Waterfront, the music becomes faster with music reminiscent of the "Sword Dance" from the "Dance of the Young Kurds" in Khachaturian's Gayane Ballet (the same note repeated evenly for 15 times...
...schematic, with, say, green representing jealousy. The expressiveness can be considered poor when the emotional response of the audience lies more than half a spectrum away. Timing is perfect in the second movement of Tanayev when the cello and violin echo one another, switching, however, for major (happy) to minor (sad). Then the Andante ("at a walking pace") espressivo begins, with major melodies blending into sterner, minor tunes at modulated keys. Taneyev might have been imagining anything about nature, the joy of life, or the prospect of low inflation in 1908. Whatever the case, the muscle of this Andante pulls...
...AWACs aircraft when they are at home, together with tactical fighters at home would be worthwhile. To creat a more effective air defense, especially if it is to serve against bombers and cruise missiles, would require an enormous commitment of resources, but would defend us against only a minor part of the Soviet threat, while we are unable to defend against the more significant threat from ballistic missiles...
Santa Claus: The prototype of this jolly old gift-giving gentleman was a stern but kindly bishop who lived in Asia Minor in the fourth century. St. Nicholas, so legend goes, learned that the impoverished father of three young women planned to allow them to solicit in order to provide dowries. Filling three bags with gold, Nicholas threw them into the maidens' rooms. All were soon happily married, and St. Nicholas was forever associated with unexpected gifts...
...writer of Renault's re-creative powers had little difficulty moving from Theseus, mythical founder of a unified Attica, to Alexander the Great, who spread the seed of Hellenism across Asia Minor, North Africa and the brow of India. In Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, Renault took the most romantic of all military heroes from his beginnings as son of Philip of Macedon through his glories as youthful conqueror...