Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soft attacks in the highest register were followed by harrowing crescendoes without the slightest wavering in pitch. Wolff, although he had no comparable solo, sensitively handled the shifting harmonies, providing the quartet with a sure base for their soaring and sometimes frantically demonic melodies. The piece is full of fast unison passages for the strings which would glaringly expose any inconsistency in rhythm or pitch. Chang and Hogan played best in these sections that would have frazzled the nerves and ears of lesser musicians...
...Harvard Polo Club narrowly defeated a surprisingly fast Yale team, 14-13, Saturday night...
...reason for the vulnerability of executives in the current recession, says Social Scientist Peter Drucker, is that middle management in the past 20 years has grown three times as fast as total employment, and executive ranks are bloated. Hordes of postwar babies-now 28 years of age on the average -are crowding into middle-management positions in the $25,000-and-up level. Says Eugene Jennings, professor of management at Michigan State University: "The older employees seem to be blocking up the corporate arteries." More than ever before, these middle-aged middle managers are being replaced by younger ones...
...Fast-Break Offense. Many of those teams are in Wooden's own conference. With an impressive 75-20 record against nonleague opponents, and with four teams ranked among the nation's top 20, the Pac8 has become one of the toughest leagues in the nation. The strength starts up north at Oregon State, whose team, expected to fight for the cellar, was instead tied for first place with U.C.L.A., going into last weekend's showdown with the Bruins. The Beavers are led by 6-ft. 8-in. Sophomore Forward Lonnie Shelton, who is racking up 18 points...
...writers can be as entertainingly cerebral as Updike. Yet after nearly two decades of distinguished service as the thinking man's John O'Hara, Updike seems to have reported everything he knows about the sexually tormented middle class. The ground covered in A Month of Sundays is fast becoming scorched earth...