Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half game back are Yale and Brown, both 2-1. The Bruins knocked off the Elis last Saturday in Providence, R L., as sophomore Kieron Bigby scored a career-high 23-points to pace the hosts...
Onstage, Price had none of the fiery, histrionic talent that, say, Maria Callas brought to her art. Instead, she unleashed a voice elemental in its passionate intensity. When Price sang the Forza Leonora's Pace, pace, mio Dio, it was the heartrending plea of a desperate woman begging God for surcease; when she cried O Scarpia, avanti a Dio! at the end of Tosca, it was a chilling curse delivered at the gates of hell. And when she sang Aida's anguished O patria mia, as she did last week, it was a radiant invocation of pathos...
...heroism in modern life may be traced to our servitude to time. Save time, beat the clock. The only real way a clock may be beaten is to pay no attention to it, to rediscover privacy, cling to it, hoard it; to determine one's own proper unhurried pace. We often apologize for wasting time, when all we mean is that we have violated someone else's standards of progress...
Although this protection leaves authors at the mercy of both actors and directors, the directors pace the biggest danger because, by changing the setting, pace and tone, they can disguise the very nature of the play. In the playwright's mind, there is a point, undoubtedly difficult to define, at which such changes over to be direction and become perversion...
...whatever interest rates they wish, move into different businesses like stock brokerage and open offices across state lines. After the banks' poor performance this year, critics are asking whether the institutions can safely handle so many swift changes. Several members of Congress are talking about slowing the pace of deregulation...