Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last night was beautiful, revealing a through understanding of the music. Only occasionally did exaggerated rubato obscure a cadence or mar an elision. Her musicianship showed through especially in the pedalling of the second movement and throughout the cadenza of the first. The orchestra, despite an irresistable tendency to rush, supported her quite well. The soloist herself took command when the Adagio turned into an Andante in restoring the original tempo...
...grumbles are even louder ashore. With gold-rush enthusiasm, businessmen overborrowed-took short-term loans at interest as high as 28%-to overbuild. "They are operating in a sea of lOUs," says Victor Riveros, editor of Peru's fishing-industry journal Pesca. The industry now has a capacity of 2,000,000 tons of fish meal a year, or nearly double what it expects to sell. As a result, most of the country's 156 plants are operating at half speed; 30 are closed altogether. Last week workers marched in and seized one plant on account of three...
Thoughts in Bed. The time may come when it will be better, both for him and the nation, to sit down and ponder a few problems rather than rush all over talking about them. But until that time does come, Lyndon Johnson is riding a crest, both as the President of the U.S. and as a politician seeking reelection. "Every night when I go to bed," he said recently, "I ask myself: 'What did we do today that we can point to for generations to come, to say that we laid the foundation for a better and more peaceful...
...been the product of Franco or his system of government. The memory of the war--the memory of thirty-three months of civil agony and a million deaths--still haunts the country. The Spaniard, recalling what partisanship brought him in the past, has not been eager to rush back into politics. He has been an easy target for Franco's peace and unity campaign. Yet the issues of war stand unresolved. Twenty-five years after its conclusion, the Spanish citizen remains without political or economic voice in his society. The Catholic Church and the Candillo rule his life with unchecked...
...finishes his prayer in stone. But is it a blessed victory? Naturally not. Slowly, and then in a landslide rush, Golding undermines the reader's faith in the saintly fool. Soon Jocelin himself is wrestling with the high cost of inspiration, strung taut between the tenter hooks of divine and earthly means. He condones adultery and acquiesces in an accomplished murder to keep the master mason...