Word: tempos
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They are inseparable from books like this, and it is idle for old South America hands to fuss & fret about them. The total picture is accurate enough-allowing for the fact that Gunther was in Latin America last winter and the tempo of changes in the Western Hemisphere is now geared to the tempo of changes in Europe. But for tabloid readability John Gunther can't be beat...
Boris Goldovsky, of Cleveland, noted pianist, conductor, and lecturer in the field of music, will deliver two free, public lectures on "The Riddle of Musical Tempo" in the Music Building at Harvard, under the auspices of the Department of Music, Wednesday, November 5, and Friday, November 7, at 8:15 o'clock...
...titles of the lectures are: November 5, "Analysis of Tempo," and November 7, "Mathematical Types and Musical Style...
...characterization and scope of treatment to resolve successfully the large problem with which it grapples. Yet within this limitation it achieves a certain power and vitality, fully expressed by the Repertory's able cast. Life in the post-war twenties is depicted as a vortex of ever-accelerating tempo which sucks in both young and old, and crushes them in a mad whirl of meaningless activity, devoid of all values, empty of all reality. A climax is reached in the mad piano-playing of young Nicky in the second act, louder and louder as his sensitive mind is driven close...
...Martha of Norway, postponed his return to Washington when the weather cleared. With an almost ostentatious disregard of the news he spent the Sunday morning with members of the Chapel Corners Grange, although the mission from Moscow had been on hand a full day. Averell Harriman, keeping to the tempo of the time, flew from Moscow to London, broadcast a breathless speech of confidence in Russia, flew to the U.S. in a U.S. Navy patrol bomber, raced to his home in Harriman, N.Y., 35 miles from Hyde Park. Harry Hopkins ran back and forth. But the President let more than...