Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triumvirate is going slow because Sukarno is, after all, the only President Indonesia has ever known, and as such retains a great deal of public sympathy, especially in populous Java and among the tough Indonesian marines. Instead of taking any precipitate action that might cause civil war, the triumvirate has tried gradually to discredit Sukarno and erode his popularity. It would like to avoid a trial, hoping that Sukarno will eventually leave under pressure. Suharto intends to see to it that the pressure continues to build. He himself supervised the preparation of a scalding 120-page document, not yet made...
Hamlet, as the theatrical cliché has it, is the play in which the title actor cannot fail. It might be truer to say that he can never wholly succeed. The part demands the range of a concert virtuoso, for Hamlet is both gentle and brutal, passionate and detached, slow to act yet violent in action-a volatile tangle of will, thought, word and deed. Hamlet is also the first supremely self-conscious hero to tread the stage. This is where Richard Pasco's failure is most manifest. He portrays a computer's Hamlet, mechanically feeding himself punch...
...program was ambitious, a no-compromise mixture of the new, the old and the damnably difficult. In Schoenberg's slow, brooding Five Piano Pieces, he stretched and examined each phrase with all the intense care and concentration of a surgeon. In Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, an awesome challenge to pianists twice his age, he impetuously jiggered tempos and juggled rhythms without catching the full depth and breadth of the music. In Mozart's Sonata in F Major, he was all lucidity and logic, rippling through the trickiest passages with an almost playful ease. His interpretations were introspective...
...Lately, it may have overreacted: with country after country splashing cold water on overheated economies, icicles have started forming. After clipping along at a 5.6% pace in 1964, the Continent's overall economic growth rate dropped to 4% in each of the past two years, is likely to slow down in 1967 to 3.5%-the smallest increase in more than 15 years. And in many countries, incipient recession is a worse threat than inflation...
Shaw broke Jim Baker's mile record earlier this year by running 4:15.4 in slow Briggs Cage. He too is good at longer distances. He usually runs the two-mile, but last week at Yale he had to drop out before the finish...