Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wood through ten feet of water and return his oar for another stroke, all in a little more than one second. Several strokes into the race, the speed of rowing settles slightly, and the oarsman must precisely time his movements, keep the three-foot wide keel balanced, and maintain maximum power for some 200 additional strokes...
...traders of West 47th Street maintain a timeless world
Most Boston players did not admire the performance. It brought into focus their criticism of Chinese musicianship: the inability to sustain rhythm and tempo over a long stretch. "You must maintain control if the excitement and beauty are to come out of the music itself," says Violinist Marylou Speaker, whose gift to the Peking Central Philharmonic was a metronome. "You sometimes hear amateur groups rushing the pace at home. The tendency is to tense up in a tough passage. When things got hard, Liu took off and was out of context with the music." Ozawa dealt with the same problem...
Since most people instinctively feel that the world gets worse, not better, the only basis of genuinely popular art is nostalgia. Grandma Moses supplied it-not out of any desire to create a product, but simply in order to maintain her own memories. "I like to paint old-timy things, historical landmarks of long ago, bridges, mills and hostelries, those old-time homes, there are a few left, and they are going fast. I do them all from memory, most of them are daydreams, as it were...
...their editors to carry guns, or would be if the home office found out they were doing so. Some reporters prefer to remain unarmed. "If you're captured, having a gun is a death warrant," says the Los Angeles Times's Jack Foisie. But the armed correspondents maintain that such ethical hairsplitting is irrelevant to their workaday peril. Says one: "Anyone who can sit in an editorial chair and demand that reporters ride around the Rhodesian countryside unarmed should come here and try it for himself...