Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another problem was his inability to perceive the organic emotional continuity of this great work. He missed the miracle of the Scherzo, in which Beethoven keeps an ostinato theme from becoming mechanical, by adopting a slow tempo. There was hardly a touch of gentleness and sway in the priceless slow movement in which every phrase should be continent and compassionate, where lyricism and drama should perfectly intermingle. Yannatos tolerated reticent playing, displayed an at times staggering lapse of taste in phrasing, and generally enervated the performance by failing to grasp the dramatic ethos of Beethoven's universal consciousness...
...hope for complete integration lies with the descendants of the immigrants. "The second generation is less segregated, and hopefully the third will be even less," Eisenstadt said, and there has been a slow but continuous increase in the rate of intermarriage between the two groups. Higher education is also a problem; Eisenstadt believes that not more than 10 per cent of university students are Oriental or Moroccan, but the army has instituted a new program where, after their period of service, immigrants who are qualified but "not quite prepared" for a university are given a pre-university training course. "This...
...Lowry cultists could not discuss the novel intelligently. It had changed their lives, and that was that. Others, less sympathetic to Lowry, generally argued that the novel was "uneven." The first two hundred pages were deadly slow, they told me; only in the last chapters did things really begin to move. If you could get by the first two hundred, you were fine...
...that the Democrats have thoroughly mismanaged the economy, particularly by relying too much on changes in tax rates to "tune" the state of business. The current 10% tax surcharge helped convince him that tax increases are not only difficult to ram through a constituent-minded Congress but usually have slow effects when finally enacted. "We are beginning to realize," says McCracken, "that fiscal policy is simply not available to us in the real world to influence short-run changes in business activity...
Although a certain amount of socialization of a child takes place through direct training, research bearing on modeling processes demonstrates that, unlike the relatively slow process of instrumental training, when a model is provided, patterns of behavior are rapidly acquired in large segements or in their entirety...