Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the first five years of Franklin Roosevelt's regime, he ran the U. S. Government faster and more completely than any President before or since. In the year since the Court fight, the President may have seemed to have slackened his pace because other of the people's representatives have bestirred themselves. But last week, of the 113,014 Federal employes in Washington, he alone made practically all the news. Renewing his contact with the electorate by radio, addressing Congress for the first time on Recession, communicating unconventionally with the House & Senate tax committees, greeting Pan America...
...Ibsen's A Doll's House (TIME, Jan. 10), was just as disastrous as The Merry Wives in exactly the opposite way. Underplayed to the vanishing point, it left the audience wondering whether they had lost their hearing or the actors had lost their voices. With the pace a solemn largo, The Wild Duck, possibly the greatest play in the modern theatre, might have got by as a genteel pantomime had there been any gestures...
...hesitate to make changes in his first boat if he thinks it is for the good of the crew. "Spike" Chace, captain of the Varsity, is one sure choice for the stroke position, although even he will be closely pressed by Bill Rowe and Barr Comstock. Jim Curwen, Freshman pace-setter last spring, has decided to stick to swimming this year...
...beauties of this work are not generally known. Despite a mediocre libretto by Nahum Tate (poet-laureate of England at the time) Purcell has a real sense of dramatic pace, and his themes admirably express the varying moods of his characters...
...beer and discovers what is the trouble with his product's demand schedule. I give the big ha-ha to this Allen Jenkins, who is very much of a laugh and a snarler than whom there is none better. The plot meanders along at just the right pace so I can get in a chortle at all the jokes and still hear the next line, which is a pleasure after all these sophisticated comedies which keep a fellow thinking so hard. This Mr. Robinson is right at home in this spot, and he speaks my kind of lingo, which...