Word: tempos
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...weary senior wonders vaguely what good the last four months of college are. Four more months are not going to increase his knowledge much. He's marking time and a dull experience it is with no band to set the tempo...
There is an irritating monotony of scene and absence of any dramatic tempo throughout the picture. Lewis Stone, one of our favorites, takes the part of the head of the German secret agents, yet he is never permitted to step beyond the portals of a drab office room. Lionel Barrymore, one of Hollywood's foremost character actors has little opportunity to do more than pluck nervously at his moustache...
...slowing up of the general tempo in Soviet Russia is evident at the present time since the set-back in the capitalistic world has removed the prime cause for feverish development and expansion," said Bruce Hopper, Assistant Professor of Government, and widely known interpreter of Russian political and economic theory, in an interview yesterday. "A possible explanation might be that the Bolsheviks, having stolen three years from history' by starting the Five Year Plan before the depression, now feel sufficiently strong to give themselves a taste of the better things of life...
...slowing of tempo gives Editor Bolton Mallory an opportunity to do what he said he wanted to do when he took office last year: make the magazine less funny. There is little of the dentist-office jokebook about the new Life. Its features are presented in full page units. More and longer articles and better drawings are the order. Contributors include Montague Glass, Sam Hellman, Ely Culbertson, Baird Leonard ("Mrs. Pepys' Diary"), Jefferson Machamer. Jack Kofoed (Sports), Artist Frederic G. Cooper (covers...
...felt obliged to change several of the sequences for the purpose of adaptation. Such alterations as appear, nevertheless, fail to add to the effectiveness of the plot and often obscure the action. Things seem a bit too hurried. There is not the careful focus and delicate shading in the tempo of the action which helped John Halliday win success on the stage...