Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English players emphasized the contrast between the gaiety and introspection, particularly in the first of the three works. A highly romantic reading of the slow movement sharply set-off the cheerful expression of the violin introducing the Russian theme of the last movement. The juxtaposition of the two moods is even clearer in the second quartet; an unusually long and searching adagio is followed by the rollicking humor of the jiggish last movement. Climaxing the whole series, the almost fugal finale of the third quartet presents complicated difficulties to the performers. Not without a little buzzing, the players carried...
...weekly sprint to Warren House has started again. More than 1250 Freshman members of English A face a long winter of neatly-folded themes, conferences with tired instructors, and slow-moving class meetings twice a week. Their sections have been arbitrarily assigned without so much as a nod towards the varying abilities of the students. Skillful writers may very well find themselves classed with other men who have to be coached all the way up from the fundamentals of grammar. The result is an unwieldy and inflexible course, with material geared to its slowest students...
Fifteen minutes out of Berlin we passed a big Russian airfield. Did the Russians bother them much? "They come up and take a look at you," said Hensch, "and maybe do a couple of slow rolls to show off like any fighter pilot, but they don't mean any harm...
...Laurence Olivier, who throws everything he has into every role he plays, might have to slow down. He had to interrupt his New Zealand tour for a few days to have a knee cartilage fixed: he had been playing Richard III with such an emphatic stage limp that he had given himself a real...
...seemed to be his devotees desert him when his play appears headed for failure. The playwright then loses his faith in his play as well as in his associates; but eventually he becomes as tough as the rest of them, and goes on with the job. The plot is slow in starting, and in some of the later serious moments it appears to get in the way of the real guts of the show, which are delightful...