Word: swiftness
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...reaction to Carter's initiative was predictably swift and angry. Governors and Congressmen from the affected areas echoed Senator Scoop Jackson's charge that the move was an absurd mistake. Declared Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "It is a waste of money to stop projects that have already started and gone through the long process of justification...
...many people inveterately enjoy. The performance of such unusual sections and of the rest of the piece was usually quite exciting, due in large part to the pianist's resounding and sensitive execution. The orchestra was particularly effective in the Allegro, when it merely supported Melnyk nicely in his swift gentle passages...
...piano to ensemble. Melnyk's and the orchestra's playing were especially forceful and resolute right from the beginning. Indeed, if at any time during the evening there was particularly an air of relentless fine playing, it was in the third movement of the Gershwin. It was crisp and swift as the piano clashed with the bass drum and some less conventional timpani. After startling soft and loud passages, the performance ended convincingly in an impressive surge...
Dressed in his carefully tailored corduroys, Canada's Pierre Elliott Trudeau moved with an athlete's swift stride to the luncheon table at Blair House during the final hours of his courtesy call on Neighbor Jimmy Carter...
...Ensor as a man of the people. But Ensor's waterfront lumpenproletariat look just as subhuman as his judges and police officers. As a political artist, he was both strident and unfocused. The Good Judges, 1891, is a curdled parody of Daumier, without the master's swift economy of feeling. It is impossible to tell what Ensor thought about politics, except that he was in favor of free education and universal suffrage, and against the riot squad - not the most developed of ideologies. He disliked the Belgian monarchy and went so far as to make an etching entitled...