Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bernard Goldfine was back in his Boston, and his friend Sherman Adams was still at his White House desk-but by no means was all right with their world last week. With slow-moving precision, Arkansas' Oren Harris got his House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight to vote a unanimous recommendation that Goldfine be cited for contempt of the House for his refusal to answer 22 questions during gaudy hearings before the subcommittee on the operations of his Boston real estate companies. Then Chairman Harris got the parent House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee to add its unanimous endorsement. This...
Although corporation and large gift giving has been slow, alumni have responded wholeheartedly to the drive, which has centered its appeal on the importance of the success of the Program to all colleges in the United States. This argument ranks high on the list of "selling points" which alumni workers are given before they go out to solicit funds. The truth of it is readily apparent: as soon as Harvard, the wealthiest (in terms of endowment) college in the country, announced its drive, Yale, M.I.T., Brown, and a number of other schools followed suit with ambitious money-raising programs...
...take a look at what goes on inside people, we glimpse a moiling of flabby, many-tentacled evasions . . . Roll away the stone of the commonplace and we find running discharges, slobberings, mucous; hesitant amoeba-like movements. [Nathalie Sarraute's] vocabulary is incomparably rich in suggesting the slow, centrifugal creeping of these viscous, live solutions...
There is a tale making the slow rounds about the Art of Henry James. James, it goes, constructed a great Gothic Cathedral of his craft. Beneath the arches and between the pews our heels clatter and our voices echo. But upon arriving at the altar (so says the story) we discover a dead...
...Bravados (20th Century-Fox) is a western that attempts to draw a useful moral, but it is just too goldurn slow (98 minutes) on the draw. The hero (Gregory Peck) is a ranchman who hunts down and kills three men for the rape and murder of his wife, only to discover that the men did not commit the crime. To make matters worse, the killings have made him a hero to the whole district...