Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that pace, the industry was barely bettering its performance during the last half of 1966. "It's easier to scare buyers away than to get 'em back," says Los Angeles Builder Ben Deane, sounding a common sentiment among his colleagues. "The recovery is going to be slow...
...over 25 years ago but unpublished until now, it is business as usual in the hard-labor camp by the hearth. The setting is not the Anhwei of The Good Earth but a village in Pennsylvania. The young heroine drags from crisis to crisis: her mother's long slow death from cancer, brother's bastard child, sister's orphaned infants, her own hopelessly retarded baby. Men appear in the story only long enough to leave trouble at the door...
...speeds at which he can no longer subvocalize, and then brings him back to speeds at which he is a little more comfortable but which are still above his first, natural speed. The theory is that, after repeating this drill many times, the original reading speed should seem unnaturally slow to the reader...
Debussy'sSonata in G minor, written shortly before the composer's death, is a piece of varying moods, ranging from slow, nostalgic passages to hard metallic ones. In this performance, the most impressive sections were the frequent fantasia-style passages; the entire second movement was excellent. The more romantic phrases sounded a little...
More exciting, however, was Leon Kirchner's Sonata Concentrate. This sonata, composed in 1952, is long, elaborate, and tightly packed; its textures are brilliant and its technical demands high. After a slow and baffling opening it is consistently fast-moving. Street handled all the technical problems of the work with complete ease, and attained a more brilliant tone than before. What had been a solemn and quiet recital became at the end a passionate one as well...