Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make up for the slow tempos and truncated phrases of the other two cantatas, Collins startedWachet auf! (BWV 140) so fast that he almost left the orchestra behind. The opening chorus was a bit heavy, but it had an intensity that the earlier works lacked. Despite some rough spots, it was the most exciting chorus of the evening...
...Marijuana does not produce physical addiction, but it does produce significant dependence, to a serious degree." Wow. Even if the prose weren't so bad this would be an objectionable sentence. For one thing, it's untrue. Marijuana no more "produces" dependence that driving fast does; people may get hung up or stung on either, but the chemical or car can hardly be blamed, certainly not in the sense that heroin or alcohol can. Marijuana simply does not produce that kind of dependency...
...should have particular appeal to TV sports buffs. By recording on large metal disks rather than reels of magnetic tape, the machine will permit the first "instant replays" in color. As if that were not enough, it will allow action to be run forward and in reverse in both fast and slow motion...
...abating, he continued, "the government is urgently considering the question of claims." Britain, said the Prime Minister, intends to sue the Union Oil Co. of California for damages due to the wreck of its supertanker. If the suit ever gets to court, it will further complicate what is fast becoming not only the most costly maritime accident in history but also the most complex...
...certain similarity of means is about the limit of the comparability of the campus protesters and the off-campus oriented student leftists. The local issue protesters came together and then fade away as fast as campus sore points are discovered and then patched up. With only a handful of exceptions, such as Berkeley's SLATE, local-campus activism is entirely lacking in organizational and even personnel continuity. There have been no coherent sets of unifying beliefs -- educational or political...