Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-swept, uncluttered story of Sam, a little boy who is sold into service as a chimney sweep, then rescued by the five children of the house where he is sweeping, moved swiftly along; and Benjy Britten's simple but satisfying score, written in eight days, did not slow it down. Most popular chorus: the Night Song, in which the audience is divided, for singing purposes, into owls, herons, turtledoves and chaffinches. After they had joined gleefully in the final Coaching Song, there was nothing left to do but applaud themselves and the opera's makers. Curly-haired...
...proud papa was Songsmith Frank Loesser, a Hollywood Tin Pan Alleyite whose specialty is producing catchy, shortlived jingles about leaky faucets (Bloop, Bleep) and slow boats to China. But Baby was not even written for public consumption. Loesser ran it off five years ago as a comedy number for himself and his wife, Lynn, to sing at parties. It was surefire when his songstress wife, with appropriate handwringing, began singing "I really can't stay . . . I've got to go 'way," and Loesser answered pleadingly, "But Baby, it's cold outside!" After that the pace picks...
...sprinter run his last hundred for the University of Southern California. At the gun, Patton uncoiled like a spring, his long, slender legs pumping, with Stanfield right beside him in an adjoining lane. In the last 20 yards, Patton pulled away enough to win by a yard in 9.7 (slow time compared to the world record 9.3 he hung up last year at Fresno, Calif...
Such work is slow and expensive: nitrogen 15 costs $1,000 for a single study. But already Dr. Brown's group have had one outstanding, success in their study of a cell's reproductive system. They used an artificial compound called 2,6-diaminopu-rine, not yet isolated in nature, which they thought had a momentary existence inside the cell. The organic chemists synthesized some of this compound and turned it over to the chemotherapists. They thought that it might have the sought-for "differential effect" on lawless cancer cells...
...England in which this slow man got his seasoning was the land of what Henry James called "the classic abandoned farm of the rude forefather who had lost patience with his fate." In 1906, Frost had been farming for six years outside Deny, N.H., and had begun to teach school. He showed his verse to his wife, who liked it but never praised it. Frost kept this up until 1912, when he was 37; only then did he have enough money to buy passage to England for his family. As a poet he had no name whatever...