Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time going over the music slowly until each section has learned its notes. Only then do they begin to work on musical values. But Chen takes the music up to tempo from the very first. "If I let everyone carefully study their notes, when I want to go fast, they won't be able to go fast any more." He fears that his singers will get lost in minutae and obscure the larger shapes that he is trying to create. So he goes for the large gestures and expects his singers to pick up the notes somewhere along...
...have wilted. The wall slogans have grown strident. A revolution that began by freeing Portugal from a dictatorship of the far right is rapidly evolving into a dictatorship of the far left. In Portugal, the dream that the April revolution would lead to a democratic and pluralistic society is fast fading, and the nation's 8 million people have only sum hope of seeing a centrist or even moderately socialist civilian government. As a mechanic in the rural town of Benedita recently put it: "The revolution is being betrayed...
...Socialist Party Leader Mário Soares and officials of the Popular Democrats prohibited their party colleagues from participating in the new government. Denouncing the Directory as unconstitutional, Soares called for a broadly representative "government of national salvation," warning last week that "the rhythm of our revolution is too fast...
...early opponent of (and frequent plotter against) the Salazar and Caetano regimes. The leftist ideas he picked up in the military also made him an opponent of Spínola after that conservative general became President. When the M.F.A. decided a year ago that the revolution was not moving fast enough, radical officers readily turned to Gonçalves, who became Premier. He refuses to say whether or not he has ever been a member of the Communist Party, and, in fact, many foreign observers who have met him are convinced that he has some muddled notions about Marxism...
...year before. In the first quarter of 1975, 8,568 wells were drilled, 22% more than during the same quarter in 1974; yet production has shown only a minuscule rise. Although increased drilling has added new oil to the nation's supply, it has not done so fast enough to offset the drain on total proven reserves caused by pumping from old fields (see chart...