Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though Russia's Congress did its year's work in less time than it takes for a minor Senate filibuster, the meeting was significant. For the long-delayed budget figures, when finally unveiled, showed that the Soviet Union was converting steadily from war to preparedness. The armed forces' share fell from nearly half the 1945 budget to less than a quarter in 1946 -from 128.2 out of 298.6 billion rubles...
...tone, in large measure, remained Elizabethan. Costumes were sober; the dim-lighted sets were mainly just drapes of black and grey, so readily shifted for change of scene that the play flowed pauselessly as fate itself to its blood-slippery conclusion. The cast, down to the minor roles, played with assurance and conviction. Head & shoulders above this excellent support stood the Hamlet of Louis-Jean Barrault, onetime pantomimist and cinemactor, and a brilliant renegade from the Comedie Française. Barrault's Hamlet was real, immediate, full-bodied, and above all intelligent...
...Three, says Nicolson, their peacemaking would have been easier if the major powers alone were involved. Inevitable "nuisances,and . . . eccentrics" were present at the Congress of Vienna. Prussian Delegate Prince Hardenburg was stone-deaf. Spanish Delegate Don Pedro Gomez Labrador spent his time mimicking French Delegate Talleyrand. Thirty-two minor German royalties attended-and brought their wives, mistresses and secretaries of state...
Moral Collapse. The physical destruction, one soon discovers, constitutes only a secondary-almost a minor-problem. After all, there are bulldozers and concrete mixers and prefabricated building methods. . . . But what will repair the inward damage, the spiritual destruction? . . . Nothing. Something has happened to Europe's ideas of honor, of morality, of faith, hope and charity which goes so deep that no restorative power now in evidence will measure up to the task of restoration...
...shift city deskman when his bosses shifted him to society a fortnight ago, set him up with an assistant and a telephone of his own. His assignment: to treat real society in cafe-society style. Lait's maiden column, sent to the Chief on approval, came back with minor blue-penciling and a marginal note: "Let's be amusing, but not vicious...