Word: rhythmic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...church's good name. But at the peal of the first bell, all fears of future grumbling vanished on the light night wind. The timbre and quality of each of the bells proved to be perfectly matched, and Barnes won warm reviews for the nuance, style and strong rhythmic feeling with which he played the 60 tons of sonorous bells that he is confident are the world's finest...
...softly; fortissimos produced a wide mark because the force of the pianist's finger sank the carbon rod deeper in the mercury and intensified the current. A companion machine-the Vorsetzer-was placed at the keyboard to play back the rolls, reproducing not only the notes and their rhythmic sequence but also the personality of the original performance.-There was none of the wheezing monotony of the standard player piano; every eccentricity of the pianist's technique was recorded with incredible accuracy...
forward in rhythmic spasms...
...front of a pale green building on Honolulu's Kapiolani Boulevard one day last week, a band of ukuleles and a bass fiddle plunked out a rhythmic island tune. In the midday sun, languid, aloha-shirted islanders meandered back and forth along the sidewalk carrying their signs, pausing now and then for a swig of pineapple juice or to chat with a passerby. The occasion was neither a luau nor a festival, but the visible evidence of the first strike in more than 100 years of Hawaiian newspaper publishing history...
...which Great Lavra stands, a procession of five ships unloaded 1,000 visitors. Jeeps and trucks carried the pilgrims,*who were led by King Paul of Greece, up the steep road to the monastery yard. The bells of other monasteries joined those of Great Lavra in a tolling, rhythmic counterpoint to the chanting of the monks...