Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact of salient importance in the announcement of the changes of plans for the new indoor athletic plant is the postponement of the erection of a swimming pool. Reparation of the one great failure of Harvard athletic equipment to keep pace with policy, expected by many this winter, is delayed until some indefinite date...
...with legato variations. An opening scene in which an ant covered antique hinge is concealed by the ingenue, Sally, in her silk unmentionables only to be hastily plucked forth as the man, Richard Clarke, curio collector, appears for the first time, constitutes good bait for the reader. Unfortunately, the pace slows down after this...
That is the end of "the chronicle of a woman's life," the first full length novel which famed Austrian Arthur Schnitzler has written for 20 years. The book moves slowly with the pace of life in language that is bare and beautiful. Author Schnitzler does not blame Theresa for her tragedy, nor does he blame the circumstances which compel it. He merely understands that these things are a part of life, and writes about them seriously and gently...
...long day of conferences and conversations. The hotels teemed with men, money, moonshine, political and religious arguments. For an hour in the afternoon, the Nominee" stood bareheaded, smiling, bowing, smart-cracking, in an automobile that moved about town at a snail's pace...
Good Boy. In the effort to bring novelty to the musical show, Arthur Hammerstein sliced up his stage in the most extraordinary manner, running treadmills from wing to wing so that sets could be switched without new backdrops, and so that his actors, trotting briskly along to keep pace with the changing scenery, had a little bit the look of squirrels in a cage or the race horses in the last act of The Girl from Kentucky...