Word: paced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rest. Now 44, Pianist Horowitz has slowed to a more becoming pace. He has forsaken Beverly Hills for a quiet apartment and studio in Manhattan's upper East side (and has become a U.S. citizen). Gone are the days of which he complains, "I played certain works so often that I couldn't hear them any more." He still commands the biggest box office of any living concert musician, but is sticking to his resolve to perform only six months of the year and not more than twice a week...
...stimulates it. It depends on who is sick. If it is a Nietzsche or a Dostoevsky . . ." Mann's own genius is of a plainer kind, founded on steady discipline. In writing Dr. Faustus, he averaged a little better than one page" of longhand a day, the same pace he has maintained for half a century...
Dave Gregory, a standout this year in the '52 squad, may be able to pace on amazing Freshman squad to its fifth victory of the year. Backed by such promising runners as Owen Edmunds, Thayer Scudder, Tom McGrath, Peter Lord, Allan Master, Joe Heaney, and Clark Coggeshall, the '52 representatives sense victory within their reach...
...education, says Conant, has failed to keep pace with the changing country. The leisure class and the "cultured gentleman" are gone, but as yet the schools don't seem to realize it: "It is as though a country parson [with] a small and homogeneous congregation should suddenly find himself . . . spiritual leader of the crowd that fills the Grand Central Station...
...novelist, Giuseppe Berto has a lot to learn. He knows very little about how to pace a novel, how to build up climaxes and tighten tensions; he often touches the incongruous by putting much too mature speeches into the mouths of his babes. But most U.S. readers will find in The Sky Is Red, as in such recent Italian films as Open City and Shoe-Shine, a raw and brutal vitality that slicker performances often lack...