Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stiff Party Rule. The most prevalent belief in Czechoslovakia is that the long, slow campaign of resistance since August has finally had an effect on national politics. The country's strength, say insiders, lies in an expanding axis of students, workers and intellectuals, who staged meetings, sit-ins and work stoppages to protest the Central Committee's announced intention of returning the country to stiff party rule. Not even optimists are convinced that, in the end, their pressure can reverse Russia's considerable success in crushing Dubcek's reforms. But for the time being, at least...
...signs of this new rock is its emphasis on intricate rhythmic patterns of voices. The Family Stone manage to carry these off on both fast and slow songs but Chaka was successful mainly on the up-tempo numbers. Gilbert Moses on lead guitar contributes deft Cropper-like touches, and the band generally held together well--particularly on a superb sliding easy version of "My Girl." This new city-soul sound is, of course, heavily influenced by Booker T., and Chaka showed this in its obvious delight and skill at playing "funky instrumentals...
...solution on ROTC and to hold open meetings, was precisely not in the situation of, say, the minority of industrial workers who had to organize strikes against companies that had effectively deprived their employees of any mode of redress other than coercion. It is because there existed orderly -- if slow and constricted -- procedures for change, which had demonstrated neither their impotence nor their indifference, that the sit-in is indefensible--not because the target happened to be us, the professors, instead of Dow. That these points should have to be explained to one's students is normal--I have learned...
...STATION ZEBRA doesn't afford much cause for complaint: its faults are all small and obvious, as are its virtues, and if you're in love with your date and can happily stare at him or her during the slow stretches, a relatively pleasant evening can be had for the price of a pair of tickets...
Since his death, his wife and two other editors have tried to piece together bits of the large bulk of unfinished work, in remotely intelligible form. The results, painfully slow in coming, have been enough to nourish the cultists, but insufficient to excite the doubters. At any event, nothing has come out to suggest that Under the Volcano would ever have been displaced as Lowry's major work...