Word: minor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repair shop and, complained one Moscow newspaper, can afford to fly all 19 members of his household down to a Black Sea resort every summer. A good dressmaker lives equally well, can pick and choose her customers, and takes only those with the best references-and the most money. Minor house repairs are another lucrative source of private income: a Literaturnaya Gazeta reporter estimated that from one-third to one-half of all consumer expenditures for such services goes into private pockets. In Stalingrad he found that a sofa bought for 600 rubles costs 416 rubles more...
Reflecting the ever-swelling interest of the U.S. public in art, 1959 was the biggest year ever in what was once considered a minor idiosyncrasy of publishing-the art book. Across the land, art lovers can choose among 500 art books published in 1959, and among prices ranging from the Cadillac to the hot-dog trade. Publishers are planning an even greater output for 1960. Few of the new crop are notably well written, and many offer lavish coverage of ground that has been covered before. But the boom is bringing art home to more Americans than ever before. Items...
Most ambitious plunge of all is Encyclopedia of World Art, announced by McGraw-Hill. Undertaken jointly with Rome's Institute for Cultural Collaboration, it is probably the greatest venture ever in art publications. The first huge volume (Aalto to Asia Minor), issued simultaneously in English and Italian will be in the stores next month. The scholarship, supplied by contributors from 18 countries, is outstanding, the 542 page-plates excellent (98 pages are in color). Plans call for four volumes a year until by the end of the 15th volume, 9,000,000 words and 7,000 plates will have...
Victorian at heart, Britain's "major minor poet" sings (warmly) of homely, gaslit old England and (satirically) of homely, neonlit new England...
...mathematics and astronomy. Only Kant stayed at home longer than Lichtenberg; both men being somewhat alike in their appreciation of the virtues of the middle-class life. Lichtenberg, however, was no timid professor. One of the most appealing things about him is his interest and enthusiasm over the minor occurrences in his life. A simple rain storm was as apt to inspire him to comment as his "God, who winds our sundials." "It rained so hard the pigs got clean and the people dirty." Or in a line which interested him as it has always interested men: "His beatings showed...