Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From far I come, And pass from place to place In a sleep wandering pace To seek my home...
...corpse, and similar macabracadabra, has been a viable variety of humor in the human village since at least the Middle Ages, and few will seriously bother to accuse Hitchcock of bad taste. What he does sometimes invite in this picture is the charge of slack method. The comic pace often gets so slow that the moviegoer realizes he is, after all, at a funeral. The actors, too, sometimes behave pretty much like pallbearers, but the central idea is of such wormy charm that it takes more than an hour and a half to spoil...
...program was Beethoven's Trio No. 4, a very early work, which has much of the scope of Beethoven's later chamber works without their unity and continuity. Its effects, such as a too close imitation in the adagio, do not show the later Beethoven's sense of pace. This trio was handsomely and forcefully played by violinist David Hurwitz, cellist Walter Wheeler, and pianist Landon Young. They provided fine musicianship in a concert otherwise interesting only for its instrumental novelty...
Pledged to maintain both a free economy and a breakneck pace of expansion, Turkey became more and more overextended. At home, Farmer Menderes staunchly refused (and still does) to extend the income tax to farmers, who represent 80% of the population and the bulk of Menderes' party's electoral support. The country exhausted its foreign-exchange reserves and ran up foreign debts, which continue to grow at the rate of $3,000,000 weekly. For months Turkey has been living hand-to-mouth, paying such urgent bills as last June's oil-company duns out of current...
Appliance dealers complain that Westinghouse is not keeping pace with the competition. In a high-income highly competitive market, appliances have become increasingly faddist and highly styled, and the company that hesitates to change is lost. Many dealers feel that Westinghouse has moved too slowly. For example, most of Westinghouse's competitors brought out a "hot leader," a $199 refrigerator. By the time Westinghouse finally got around to a $199 refrigerator of its own, dealers said that it was too late. The field was flooded...