Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Levin's study attempts both to place Joyce in proper relation to his literary progenitors and progeny, and to integrate his three major works and various minor productions into a consistent whole. A brief acquaintance with Joyce should convince one of the difficulty of the task, while even a briefer perusal of Levin should demonstrate his success at achieving it. This is not to suggest, however, that the book is not worth a careful reading, for a tightly-written style compresses a multitude of ideas into its relatively small compass. Expansion might make easier comprehension for the layman...
That this same eight set only one record last year, at Annapolis in a minor sort of hurricane, is due to the fact that there was not a single good Saturday's racing weather all last spring, which prevented the 1941 boat from gaining more recognition. Even a phenomenal crew cannot break records if the conditions are against...
...trouble has been that we've lumped "movies" into a single category, recognizing the existence of only minor variations on a general theme. We haven't seen that there is essentially as much difference between one film and another as there is between a symphony and a jam session. That example might stand us in good stead, incidentally; "Downbeat" doesn't try to judge Toscanini, nor does Olin Downes rip into Benny Goodman's work. Why ignore this demarcation when it comes to movies...
Although Bi-igadier General Hershey, Deputy Director of the Selective Service System, recently heralded a drastic broadening of the draft to include many of those formerly deferred because of minor physical defects, Colonel Charron emphasized that the reclassification would not in most cases affect students. "The increased war efforts has increased the need for trained men just as much as for soldiers", he said...
...have seen a minor American diplomat recently accredited to a small Balkan State moving homeward over a crowded road, with 13 suitcases and a Hungarian wolfhound half the size of a Shetland pony. By some strange freak of international diplomatic courtesy the 13th suitcase and the hound had priority over fighting men equally anxious to get along in the westward stream...