Word: tempos
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...metre it is essential that the crew be able to maintain a racing stroke of 34 or 35 without losing any of the smoothness and proportion which is easier to obtain at a lower beat. For this reason Coach Whiteside will lay special emphasis on paddles at this tempo, and also on racing starts and twenty-stroke sprints which are both essential factors of the short distance. At present the boat runs along in the water without checking, but the run itself is not impressive by any means. The blade-work moreover, is still a little ragged when the stroke...
...dialogue of "Zoo in Budapest" is not always happy, but at its worst, the action carries it off. The players also are adequate to the mood and tempo of the whole. But the real heroes, if you must have them, are the animals, and after the animals, the photographer...
...match her there is a new John Barrymore, emerging from the mists of reserve and whimsy felt rather than seen in "Rasputin and the Empress," and in "Grand Hotel." The slow tempo of these parts probably derives from that streak in Barrymore which made an unduly ruminative Hamlet in the old days, while these dashing airs, this hereditarial madness of Hapsburgs and Barrymores recalls Prince Hal of a past decade. In the role of a self-infoxteated. Vienna-crazed Hapsburg Grand Duke, the last of those emotional extroverts known as Prince Charmings, John Barrymore makes Mr. Lunt's "Prince Rudolph...
...school should possess an accurate picture of his field as a whole, the concept of rigorous training must suffer through a shifting of third year emphasis from the substantive law of the courses to a review of past work. The application of comprehensive examinations to the more rapid tempo of law school instruction cannot be satisfactory without more fundamental revisions than the present decision suggests...
...dark, drafty corridors of the gingerbread building that houses the Department of State were thronged last week by foreign ambassadors and ministers marching & countermarching at a tempo set by the White House. The moose-tall figure of Britain's Sir Ronald Lindsay came & went repeatedly at the spacious office of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. France's plump, smiling Paul Claudel, soon going home, clicked his heels up & down the stone floors. In the Secretary's anteroom with its stiff jet-black furniture and portraits of Hughes. Lansing, Colby and Kellogg, Italy's Augusto Rosso, proud...