Word: minorly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French last week scored a minor triumph in the battle: the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office acknowledged that they indeed had a rival claim to the blood-test patent and were entitled to a formal hearing. Moreover, the Patent Office recognized the French as the "senior party," since their patent application was filed seven months earlier than the NIH application. Now, says Charles Lipsey, a patent attorney for Pasteur, "the burden of proving that they invented the test first is going to rest on Dr. Gallo...
...students enrolled in Music 159r, "Composition in the Electronic Medium," will perform their final projects--replete with dogs barking and glass shattering--in a free show this Friday. But though the students have had time to prepare for the show--which is entitled "Music and Other Drama"--most foresee minor difficulties. "Having to solve the problems of live performance is a big challenge," says Naomi Pierce '85-6, a student in Music 159r. Another member of the class, Alisa Clements '87, agrees. "I still get nervous every time I play in class. Presenting to the public is more...
Instructors leading their classes from the fluorescent glow of cramped basement classrooms to sit in circles in the Yard usually don't create much of a stir. Several weeks ago, however, a minor controversy erupted when instructors gave a new twist to that old Harvard tradition...
SEVERAL PROBLEMS MAR Bradford's approach to the text. Why, for instance, has he not cut the distracting subplots often excluded in contemporary productions--such as the hackneyed drinking scenes between Caliban and minor characters Trinculo and Stephano, or the awkwardly staged scene in which the goddesses Iris, Ceres and Juno appear? These types of passages have little charm and distract the audience from the more important issues of the play. Bradford could have populated his huge stage in other ways...
Miller showed up at the doorstep of Marvel Comics in New York in 1979, a twenty-one-year-old kid carrying nothing but his portfolio and a vague smell of the Vermont woods. He was put to work drawing Daredevil, a relatively minor Marvel book chronicling the glitzy adventures of a blind superhero...