Word: paces
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Still, patient readers will find their investment of time worthwhile. The book's leisurely pace contributes to the overall effect of uncanny impersonation. Victorian novels were not brisk because people had plenty of time to spend with them. Now it is difficult to go home after work, put some wood in the fireplace, light candles or gas lamps, and settle in for a long, peaceful evening. The Quincunx suggests how much fun that could...
...standards of most young revolutions prior to the annus mirabilis of 1989, the event was rather tame. There was even some speculation that the Communist government had fomented the trouble to spread fear of disorder. Nonetheless, the sacking of Stasi headquarters epitomized a rising impatience with the pace of change in several East European countries. Increasingly aware of the strength they can wield in open demonstrations, many East Germans, Rumanians and Bulgarians seem to be growing more restive, more insistent in their demands. Their sights are often set, as they were in East Berlin, on the efforts of Communist officeholders...
Frustrated at the slow pace of gay civil rights legislation and what they consider governmental indifference to the AIDS epidemic, growing numbers of gay activists now claim a moral right to "rip people out of the closet" -- either to force them to help the movement or to nullify them as opponents. The main targets are elected officials and religious leaders who may enjoy a gay life in private but who endorse antigay measures to safeguard their careers. Radical gays go further, pointing the finger at entertainment and media figures and even ordinary citizens...
Frustrated by the slow pace of civil rights and the relentless spread of AIDS, activists adopt a fierce tactic to expose closeted gay politicians and clergy who obstruct the movement...
...high risk of getting shot. Schreiber retreated to a deputy editorship at the Times Sunday Book Review, a backwater, it turned out, that was not quite the backwater she had in mind. In 1985, single and approaching the middling age of 40, she left Manhattan for the eddying pace of a trout stream in upstate New York. The scene was set for a life of house renovation, fishing, reading and writing. Instead, Schreiber was jerked back to old realities by the news that her mother was dying of cancer...