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Word: slow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...across the expanse of a normal concert stage, as two small orchestras, one centered around a harpsichord and the other around a piano-but both conducted by Frederik Prausnitz -toss questions and answers back and forth on some unnamed, obviously serious topic. The most striking musical effect is a slow, undulating, ill-tempered growl from the percussion toward the end of the piece that seems to sweep back and forth from one group to the other, murmuring imprecations at both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 31, 1969 | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...world's oldest living written Constitution got that way because of its enduring adaptability to change. Not only does the Supreme Court constantly reinterpret it; Congress has also approved 25 amendments. Santa Barbara's fellows argue that none of this will do. The amending process is so slow (deliberately so), they note, that only ten amendments have occurred in this century, most of them minimal patchwork jobs. Recalls Fellow of the Center W. H. Ferry: "As we investigated the new institutions of American life and saw the President being forced again and again to operate on his emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: HERESY IN SANTA BARBARA | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...business suit. After the orchestral opening, his first solo entrance is firm, clean and smoothly phrased. He reads carefully from the score, but otherwise nothing in his playing betrays the tension onstage. After the first movement, Ormandy leans over to whisper: "Bravo." Johansen ripples out silvery pianissimos in the slow movement, builds the finale with structural logic and power. At the finish, the audience-which has been told only thai Peter Serkin is "indisposed" and knows nothing of what has gone on-gives Johansen a warm ovation. Ormandy-who knows all too well what has gone on-gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: Diary of a Miracle | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...measurement. Slowdowns & Reversals. At many observation points, along the San Andreas fault, the scientists found that California's coastal strip was moving to the northwest at a rate of two inches per year. In some areas, however, friction between the sliding masses of rock caused the movement to slow and even to stop. "When the fault sticks," Hofmann says, "the movement is transferred to smaller, adjacent faults that can stand only a limited amount of movement. When these smaller faults reach their limit, the forces increase until the main fault breaks loose again. This sudden breaking loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seismology: Toward Better Quakecasting | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...growth of 2.6%, it was 296th. Like the Manhattan Fund and many other big funds, Channing was heavily invested in the more seasoned glamour stocks-Ling-Temco-Vought, Fairchild Camera, Polaroid-that declined during the stock slump before Lyndon Johnson's March 31 renunciation, and have been slow to recover. Big funds cannot move out of such stocks quickly without upsetting the market; but smaller funds can-and they did. In a highly selective market, says Channing's Green, "There is no doubt that a small fund has an advantage. After you get to a certain size, bigness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mutual Funds: How They Fared | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

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