Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although 25 percent of the undergraduates in a poll last month said that the College policy affected them adversely, the failure to follow up the opinion with letters to the Council was attributed by Robert S. Sturgis '44, on behalf of the Council, to possible inertia in cases of minor injustices and to a certain amount of liberalization in Dean's Office handling of individual petitions...
...Schofield suggests that he drop his column for a while and turn to something else. He did agree to cover part of the Nürnberg trials, but floundered badly among the super criminals, and was as happy as his readers when he got back to his raffish, minor-rogues' gallery...
Till the Clouds Roll By (M-G-M), a glamorized biography of the late Jerome Kern, piles Ossa on Pelion, Mt. Everest on top of that, and garnishes with a couple of dozen minor ranges. It is not exactly strong on story. The only clouds in Composer Kern's life-Broadway's onetime preference for English tunes, and Kern's avuncular concern over his arranger's problem daughter-seem to have been no bigger than a man's hand, and just about as unusual. But for those who like popular music and attractive entertainers...
...Minor Mission. Author Roberts is best known as a novelist with a vengeance, or at least a mission: in Rabble in Arms he argued the forgotten merits of Benedict Arnold, in Wiswell he made an earnest case for colonial Loyalists and Tories. In Lydia, the mission is a minor one. Roberts' main aim seems to be to expose the incompetence of Tobias Lear, onetime private secretary to George Washington...
Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 in C Minor; Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor; Grieg's Concerto in A Minor for Piano and Orchestra; Schubert's Symphony No. 8 [Unfinished] in B Minor; Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue; Arturo Toscanini conducting Ferde Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite; a medley of Sigmund Romberg show tunes; Vladimir Horowitz playing piano pieces by Saint-Saëns, Czerny and Tchaikovsky; and an album called Two Sisters from Boston, in which the Metropolitan Opera's Lauritz Melchior sings Hollywoodian "arias...