Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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¶Lentissimo, please. The plural of tempo, a musical term denoting the rate of speed at which a piece or passage moves, is tempi.-ED.
¶Or as Reader McCluskie might better have put the science of hoof-in-mouthing: oripedalogy.-ED.
On page 15 of the Nov. 21 issue of TIME, in "A Letter from the Publisher" referring to Gerald Moore, you write that "his volumes and tempi ..."
Thanksgiving Day, when most of the U.S. was attacking a turkey with trimmings, John Courtney Murray, S.J., and TIME Associate Editor Douglas Auchincloss sat down to scrambled eggs and Chesapeake Bay crab in a lonely roadside restaurant outside Baltimore. Being members of professions that work on holidays when there is...
The long discussions between priest and writer, the source of much of the story, began the day before, when Father Murray met Auchincloss and Researcher Paula von Haimberger Arno at Baltimore's Pennsylvania Station. Driving his 1960 Dodge through the city's hilly outskirts to his headquarters at...