Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bacon's first exhibition, which opened in a London gallery last week, represented a minor triumph for his tight, bright little circle of admirers. By dint of carefully mingled rapture and doubt, they had persuaded him to save twelve canvases for the show. Whether his twelve survivors represented a triumph for Bacon was another question. The paintings did not look like the work of a perfectionist. Done in an elaborately sketchy technique, they were remarkable chiefly for horror. Among them were studies of lumpish, long-necked figures squatting on tabletops, a sinister) male nude disappearing through a curtain...
...Budapest String Quartet played three entirely different types of quartets in Sanders Theater yesterday afternoon, and when the program was over, it played Schubert's Quartet Movement in C minor as an encore. This concert was the nearest thing to musical perfection I have ever heard...
...Newfoundlander involved in a minor traffic accident at a U.S. base was ordered by an MP to report to the gatehouse. When he refused, the MP fired two warning shots; one ricocheted and hit the man in the leg. The Newfoundlander spent 23 days in the base hospital and was billed $49.50 for services; to date, he has collected no damages...
...Budapest String Quartet returns for the first time this term to Sanders Theater at 3 p.m. tomorrow. Sponsored by the Pierian Sodality and the Harvard and Radcliffe Orchestras, the concert will include Mozart's G Major Quartet, K 387; Hindemith's Quartet Op. 22, number three; Brahms A Minor Quartet Op. 51, number...
...noted penologist told the commission most of the inmates at the reformatory were serving terms for minor offenses. Younger girls, she said, are troublesome and unstable, but not criminals. "They may not be good as prison material, but in school or at home or studying something they do very well," she added...