Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pure Principle. From first to last, self-schooled, slow-minded Theodore Dreiser was ridiculed as a turgid stylist and a ponderous craftsman. His critics will still find much to ridicule in this novel. Other readers may find that the slow, munching rhythm, the tone-deaf iteration, the lifelessness of epithet, are of a rocklike unity with the earnest intelligence, the upright and enduring heart, which even Dreiser's detractors give him credit for. They may also find that Dreiser was capable of a remarkable purity of communication whenever he was deeply moved. For in the words of the American...
Accustomed to the flashy style of Rhode Island State and the crack New York outfits, the Garden's fans seemed bored with the proceedings, as the two well-matched squads battled it out in a conservative, slow-working style of ball...
...record of 1945 (more than 1,000,000 discs). Como versions of another Chopin tune, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, and Dig You Later ("A Hubba, Hubba, Hubba") which has sold over a million records, are on the current jukebox best-selling lists. Como sings them straighter than slow-drag Sinatra, but with somewhat less ease than The Groaner, Crosby. Says Como: "I can't explain the different techniques in Crosby, Sinatra and me, unless it's that one's bald and one has curly hair and I wear my hair short...
...first came to England 16 years ago. . . . Your country was a sort of museum piece, pleasant but small. You seemed slow, indifferent and exceedingly complacent. . . . I thought your streets narrow and mean, your tailors overadvertised, your climate unbearable, your class consciousness offensive. You couldn't cook. Your young men seemed without vigor or purpose. . . . But always, there was something that escaped me; always there remained . . . the suspicion that I might be wrong...
Radar. Some day radar will supply the key to all-weather flying, but not immediately. One reason: airline safety standards demand long service testing. Another: CAA has been remarkably slow in accepting military radar devices...