Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kirchner's tempi were often brisk and never slovenly. He used a baton when precision was called for, conducting only with his hands in the sections where he wanted more flexibility...
...instrumental parts. Tenor Karl Dan Sorensen displayed a voice that was light, supple and unforced, but nonetheless somewhat diminutive--potentially something of a problem in Sanders Theatre. But Kirchner kept the instrumentalists down to a virtuosic pianissimo, and in spite of the busyness of the parts and his own brisk tempo, the aria was a model of balance and clarity...
Louis Heren, chief Washington correspondent for the Times of London, brings this geriatrics report up to date in a brisk spot checkup on the U.S. political system, loosely paralleling the classic study performed in The American Commonwealth (1888) by another sympathetic Englishman, Lord Bryce. Measured by the age of its continuous governing institutions, Heren judges the U.S. to be the second oldest country in the world; only Britain is its senior. Despite its perpetual self-image of newness, the country is really "a mature, almost ancient land...
Numbing 30-degree temperatures and a brisk wind made it seem longer, however, and some vendors looked almost relieved by the time two uniformed patrolmen and two plainclothesmen arrived to take them away. They had sold about 300 papers...
...young men-through a wild summer day in the Brownsville streets. The action begins with the formal curbside cremation of a dog's carcass-very satisfying to Albert, an Ironist-and ends with a terrifying game of ringalevio, or tag, Albert's first fist fight, and a brisk one-alarm fire...