Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...troupe of young Americans to interpret a play so preeminently French must certainly have presented countless difficulties. Moreover, the actors all deserve great credit for their performance last Saturday night. In the ensemble, they were eminently successful. The general movement of the performance was perhaps a little slow, an impression which was accentuated by the length of time between the act. To the Frenchman, there were many intonations in the language of the actors that were not entirely French. In two roles, however, this slight accent was most appropriate, since they were supposed to be Americans. Outside of these...
...King passed a fair day. There is still a rise of temperature in the evening, but the slow progress continues...
...Poems. Miss Lowell treats as a skilled gardener does a rosebush he is transplanting: what the world sees ?leaf, thorn, flower?she deftly appraises; what few can see?the seed that springs in mystery, the slow roots thrusting through the dark of the mind to flower in beauty?she reveals with psychology for her spade. By this method, she puts the whole of Endymion through psychological reconstruction; explains why the Ode to a Grecian Urn is a "flawless example of clear, unvexed, wide-eyed beauty"; the Ode to a Nightingale "a no less perfect presentation of absolute magic...
...Carnegie Hall. Mr. Damfurt-berg, this week's guest conductor, gave a perfectly terrible performance of Weber's Oberon overture, and a very good one of those Handel concerti grossi. He took the first movement of Chykovsky's* Fifth Symphony faster than he should, sentimentalized the second, was too slow in the third and was superb in the fourth. The concert ended with the Tannhauser overture as usual...
Armillary Sphere is a great sundial cast in the design of that ancient astrological instrument, the armillary. Man and woman repose at its base; the goat, the lion, the bear, the ram, pursue each other in its wheels, while the armillary seems to spin, with slow laughter, through interstellar space...