Word: tempos
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...Taking a place in the orchestra himself, he was unsparing with the large batch of student conductors who turned up this year. Stopping the young conductors in mid-beat, he would say, "Why didn't the orchestra play for you there? Are you taking the orchestra's tempo or are they taking yours? Be honest with...
Breathing Canvas. In Plus Reversed, the two colors were put on in equal total area and in equal strength, so that the viewer is never quite sure which is the dominant one. The result is that the painting is full of movement that varies in tempo from second to second as two gaudy armies might move on a battlefield. Are the greens about to explode out of their oval and run the reds off the canvas? Or are the reds slowly strangling the surrounded greens? One part of the painting expands, another contracts, as if the whole canvas were breathing...
...Death of Bessie Smith, a play of eight scenes in its Boston premiere, has an internal impetus which manages to overcome the lethargic tempo of this production. Bessie Smith, the great Negro blues singer, died in Memphis, Tennessee, because she was not permitted in a white hospital after an automobile crash. This play, in examining the anguished relations among a tyrannical nurse, a liberal intern, and an Uncle Tom orderly in a hospital admissions room, reveals the human sources of this futile death. The death motif is central to all of Albee's plays, and in this one, the physical...
...knew by now that he had lied, and Profumo showed himself both arrogant and stupid in thinking that he could suppress the truth indefinitely by libel suits. (In fact, he sued Paris-Match for libel and collected out of court from Italy's Tempo Illustrato).) Besides, Ward began to talk, and to Labor M.P. George Wigg he unfolded a tale, as Wilson described it in the Commons, that "took the lid off a corner of the London underworld-vice and dope, marijuana, blackmail and counter-blackmail, violence, petty crime." Added Wilson gratuitously: "If Ward's statement had been...
...much, if anything, to meet the Negroes' demands. Negroes already have full equality before the law-yet they are angrily restive about the injustices that have been inflicted upon them. And in their struggle against unofficial segregation, the Negroes have come to rely, with ever-increasing intensity and tempo, on direct action-boycotts, marches, sit-ins, pray-ins, picket lines...