Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian and ours," said Robertson. "But as I walked through the American exhibit, I didn't see America anywhere." What Robertson saw and did not like broke down as: ¶ Too much modern art. An admitted fan of Norman Rockwell's Satevepost covers, Robertson did a slow burn at acres of abstract art and blowtorch sculpture which looked, he said, as if it had been put together by a "bunch of neurotics." "When I walked out, my mind was a complete blank...
Riegger: Symphony No. 4 (University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bernard Goodman; U. of Illinois Recording Series). One of the most consistently experimental of U.S. composers in a typically dissonant and percussive vein. The slow movement, taken from a dance score composed in 1936 for Martha Graham, is more loosely stitched and considerably less appealing than the rest of the work, but Composer Wallingford Riegger winds matters up in bold fashion with a striding, Western-flavored theme as muscularly rambunctious as an unfettered bull...
...buildup is likely to be slow and cautious. For some time businessmen have tended toward lower inventories because heavy inventories are expensive and improved transportation and increased industrial capacity have made materials easy to get. Many retail stores are ordering smaller quantities more often, getting by with a 30-day or 60-day supply instead of the 90-day supply they might have carried a few years ago. Manufacturers are doing the same. Steel customers are buying more of their steel from warehouses instead of directly from the mills, even though prices are as much as 30% higher, because...
During his eleven years in the prize ring, Virgil ("Honeybear") Akins, 30, never earned much more than a reputation as a listless, slow-starting pug. Last week the St. Louis Honeybear suddenly turned into a tiger. To the delight of a home-town audience, he took just 20 seconds of the first round to put New Jersey's Vince Martinez on the deck in their fight for the welterweight championship of the world. Martinez managed to get up, but it was a painful mistake. Akins dropped him eight more times in three more rounds, flattened his nose, and finally...
...Slow Realization...