Word: listlessly
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...temperature at Melbourne's Koo-yong stadium boiled to 112° last week, but nobody minded except the spectators (too of whom fainted in their seats) and a listless pair of players from sunny Italy. In a mismatch worthy of the Roman Colosseum, Australia's Davis Cup defenders, Rod Laver, Neale Fraser and Roy Emerson, beat back the Italian challengers 5-0, took home the 62-year-old cup for a record tenth time in twelve years...
Haydn, indeed, is a case in point. His Symphony No. 88 in G was the most important work on the program (although the printed program neglected to include mention of the various movements in its listing), but it received a listless reading. Mr. Schenk's tempi dragged, his dynamics lacked any shading (he managed only a creditable fortissimo and much less creditable mezzopiano), his attacks were ragged, his control uncertain...
...crowd sat in the smoky darkness one night last week as the guitarist strummed the gypsy rhythms that he had learned as a boy. The slight, intense performer did not like the feel of the crowd-"les marts," he contemptuously called them, "the dead ones." His playing was listless until midnight, when the dead ones left, and an enthusiastic group of flamenco appreciators-some gypsies among them-arrived from Aries. Then 29-year-old Ricard Baillardo (Manita de Plata, or Little Silver Hands to his admirers) came alive...
...recite. He glares at her, and petulantly she asks the porter to put him to bed. The porter chides him: "A smaht boy lahk you not knowing the capital of Alabama." The boy scowls, trying not to cry. Then: " 'Sure I know,' he said in a listless, uneven voice that was almost a whisper. 'It's Montgomery...
Succinct Conservative. This same devotion to succinctness and the news distinguishes the century-old daily paper from which the Sunday Telegraph sprang. The Daily Telegraph, a listless, conservative has been of 84,000 circulation when Publisher Sir William Ewert Berry took it over in 1928, has surged to success on that very formula. By dropping the price of the paper to a penny, Berry put it within reach of Britain's tradesmen, tailored its contents to the middle class's conservative but aspiring tastes. Under Berry, the first Viscount Camrose, the Telegraph dispensed both news and editorial opinion...