Word: pace
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though in bad health in recent years, Barbirolli has kept up the pace, today has more guest-conducting invitations than he can handle, is currently on a three-month tour of Canada and the U.S. Perhaps Britain's most popular conductor (he was knighted in 1949), Barbirolli recalled last week that he had started his career as a cellist at the age of eleven: "If I can live for the next two years, I will have been before the public as a musician for 50 years. Every man in the public eye must have his ups and downs. They...
...never stops his headlong pace to speak or idle with his office staff, lunches hurriedly in the executive dining room before closeting himself for the afternoon with executives to discuss problems ("Let's start from the Garden of Eden and work this through"). Each evening he takes home a portfolio of work-and expects other G.E. executives to do the same...
...following morning, under a starlit sky, Vinoba Bhave's disciples rose quietly and loaded their meager belongings in a truck. Ninety minutes later, wearing a grandmotherly shawl over his dhoti, Bhave marched briskly out of the schoolhouse and headed straight down the village road at a brisk pace, looking neither to right nor left. A man with a lantern raced ahead of Bhave to light his way. Following after came some three dozen wraithlike women secretaries and husky disciples-including the barefoot son of a wealthy cotton-mill owner, a nephew of India's Finance Minister, and landowners...
...Many younger children (and duller older ones) are helped by TV, which informs them about their world at a pace that suits them...
Yesterday the Crimson Freshmen blanked M.I.T. 9-0, extending its record to 2-0. Romer Hallern won his second straight 3-0 victory at the number one spot to pace the Yardling victory...