Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Violin Concerto by James Oliver Buswell IV. It was practically unconducted, and that created obstacles to the flow from composer to listener. Buswell's head and body gestures did not keep the orchestra together or effect good ritardandi, and the reduced orchestra sounded best in the parts of the slow movement that Buswell actually conducted. Here he created a clearer pulse, sensitive phrasing of the bass line, and even, mysteriously, better intonation...
...Ryun won the mile in a slow 4:06.8. Ryun dashed past little Sam Bair of Kent State on the final lap and sprinted home unchallenged...
...former Mrs. Ross, even from her marital vantage point, says nothing significantly new about her husband. Ross is a curiously minor figure in this book. Mostly it is a slow, waltz-time reminiscence of the '20s. There is much name dropping, mostly involving that jolly but too frequently trotted-out Round Table bunch at the Algonquin Hotel. Tales about Miss Grant's frequent dancing dates and about boozing and gambling all tend to crowd her irascible husband right out of the book. Perhaps for a lady who helped found the Lucy Stone League...
...statement by the Yale group said "for too long we have...seemingly given our approval to the slow but steady castation of the black community in New Haven." Within the University the students charged campus police with harassment of black students and alleged that the Yale admissions committee discriminates against blacks...
...Boston rowers set a slow pace; at the half-mile marker, both shells were rowing thirty-two strokes a minute. Then Harvard gradually stretched its meager four foot lead. The space between the two crafts widened to a length. In desperation the Union Boat increased its stroking, but they seemed to observers to be fighting with the river rather than gliding through it. The Harvards won by a length and a quarter, in the time of 7 minutes and 20 seconds...