Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poet. When they leave home, Myron is content to get an even more menial job at another hotel, but Ora drifts to Manhattan, his idea of Parnassus. Step by step, but with a fatherly eye more on priggish Myron than on piggish Ora, Author Lewis reports their slow, vicissitudinous careers. Ora finds the fleshpots of Greenwich Village agree with him. He writes one good but unsuccessful novel, the fruit of a brutally selfish love affair with a mulatto girl. Then he supports himself in uneven luxury by literary hackwork (including begging letters), borrowing, sponging. Eventually he develops a flair...
...game was characterized by slow playing on both sides, with the Harvard coach making as many substitutions as possible. The rushes of both teams were mostly in the form of individual sallies down the ice, with plenty of spirit and determination shown, in spite of the adverse conditions...
...Francisco found its home talent gratifying. For brevity's sake Conductor Dobrowen had omitted the first movement but young Alexander Fried, San Francisco's most level-headed critic (Chronicle), found that the slow second movement had "emotional nobility" in spite of the instrumentation's technical shortcomings, that its jazzy third movement has "as just a place in a Yankee Symphony of this generation as a minuet has in a Mozart Symphony of the 18th Century." With the Bacon Symphony Conductor Dobrowen shot his last bolt until March. This week Conductor Bernardino Molinari takes over the San Francisco...
...entirely right that he should have it. It is not setting up a dictatorship but merely restoring the balance of power between the executive and the legislature. Except for the lobbies the legislature would never have assumed this job, and never should have. Action from them is too slow so it would be difficult for La Guardia to gain his ends this way, and if he cut those salaries which are now under his control, he would be balancing the budget at the expense of certain departments while not touching others...
...reads few detective stories, much philosophy. An insomniac, it often takes a whole volume of Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West to put him to sleep. Unenergetic, he spent last summer at Sands Point, L. I. within a few feet of the beach, never went swimming. A slow writer, he works on a typewriter, rarely redoes his copy. Other books: The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, Red Harvest, The Dain Curse...