Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parsifal: Toscanini's swift handling contributed to his reputation as a fast conductor. His early record of two hours and six minutes for the first act, set in 1931, was finally broken in 1953 by Clemens Krauss, who raced to the finish in an astounding one hour and 30 minutes...
Teacher Olson first read the sharp novel, one of the landmarks (1942) of existentialist fiction, when a woman professor gave it to him at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill. A slow reader, he was impressed by the book's "contemporary relevance" and also by its short, swift sentences. In one gulp, he downed "this story of man trying to tell the truth," and it stuck with him when he went home from college last year to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. There he applied for a teaching job in the hamlet of Thompson (pop. 296), which...
MOTORISTS flock to a Howard Johnson because they expect to find fairly uniform-if often bland-food, courteous-if not always swift-service, predictable and not too high prices, and clean rest rooms. Many customers are tugged in by their children, who make up 30% of Hojos' customers, are wooed with special bibs, bendable straws and their own menu...
...wording of the G.O.P. platform's defense plank-a compromise between the Treaty of Fifth Avenue and Ike's insistence that U.S. defenses are more than adequate-gave the President a dignified exit: the plank gently recognized a need for new looks at defense programs, citing "swift technological change" and new "warning signs of Soviet aggressiveness" as the reasons...
...science's swift-moving state, the present achievements of the Xis are but a prelude to what is expected of it when it is outfitted with new high-powered rocket engines this fall. Says Test Pilot White exultantly: "I would have no qualms about going higher...