Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disappearance of many of the teaching staff, unwilling to return to the scenes of their humiliation. Some professors are reluctant to resume teaching because all old textbooks have been condemned and new ones are nowhere in sight. Contributing to the dearth of teachers is the slow "rehabilitation" process; thousands were specifically labeled "monsters" and "demons" by the Red Guards, and barely a hundred have since been cleared. Without supervision, classrooms are often split into feuding student factions. "No one is in charge; no one dares to be," wrote one Shanghai student recently to a friend in Hong Kong. To fill...
...altitude of 50,000 ft., a bar-ostatically-triggered drogue parachute is released. In turn, the craft's main parachute is pulled open, and the astronaut descends, feet first, at 15 ft. per sec.-slow enough for a safe landing on either water or solid ground...
Although such studies are highly expensive and painfully slow, scientists hope that a gradual buildup of information about the earth's crust and interior will someday enable them to create a computerized earthquake-warning system. But that day is far off. For now, says Dr. Clarence R. Allen, former director of Caltech's seismological laboratory, "these phenomena cannot be predicted-and there is no assurance that they ever will...
...characters in modern dress has its dividends. Angelo gets a laugh when he says "Call him hither" into an intercom, and Lucio gets one when he lights his cigarette with a votive lamp. In short, Mayer has filled his ample trickbag with modern props to use when things get slow, which is very often...
...amateur forfeits his main advantage over the professional -- the unlimited time for rehearsals that can make performances almost second nature to an actor. Under the circumstances, the cast has done quite well. There are very few bad readings, but many indifferent ones. And the pace is much too slow...