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According to strict astronomical calculations, the eclipse began at 9 o'clock, but not until 10 o'clock was the earth's shadow, as it began to creep across the face of the moon, visible to the naked...
...lights went down. I moved rapidly, and mingled with my fellows so that I couldn't be singled out and booted. I was a little too flustered to listen when he lights were shooting up, but I have a vague remembrance of hearing a surprised and un-operatic note creep into Martinelli's recitatif when the scene suddenly changed from evening to high noon with no plausible excuse...
...this crisis, many an oilman pinned his faith on a dull, devious, plodding form of transport that could never compete with pipelines or tankers for the coastal trade in times of peace. Barge tows of the inland waterways creep up the Mississippi, the Ohio, the Cumberland, the Monongahela, the Allegheny to upriver terminals, there transfer their oil to tank cars for the short haul east. Already Gulf loadings of river barges have doubled or tripled over last year. Loaded at Houston or Corpus Christi, the barges now thread their way through the shallows and marshes of the Gulf Coast...
...footsteps a carpet-slippery stealth. This spooky tale of London's gaslit era creates suspense, not by keeping the audience in ignorance, but by making it doubt what it knows. It builds up tension, not by hurrying its pace, but by slowing it down to a nerve-racking creep...
...simplicity of utterance, and a certain Germanic vigor, but that after a time, Buxtehude will return to the dust from whence he sprung, in the last judgment valuable only as an influence. Sweelinck, too, will prove to many that importance does not necessarily mean dullness, but will then creep back into his historic little cubby-hole, into that dictionary significance which is only one shelf above oblivion. But a recital including works by these men, work which if not memorable is at least fresh and sturdy, and vital to an understanding of the Bach tradition, should be noted down...