Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They got used to the easy Mexican tempo and to the admiring friends who gather round Rivera wherever he appears. His courtesy and rocklike equanimity in answering every question Eliot and Mrs. Brine put to him were most impressive. Rivera, in turn, was impressed by Mrs. Brine's almost continuous note-taking. Whenever she stopped recording his conversation, it worried him. Once, when she paused for a rest during a discussion of Rivera's experiences in the U.S., he gestured toward her notebook. "No," she explained, "we can't possibly print everything...
...will require at least as much tact as physics. He will have to get along with atom-minded private companies, such as General Electric and Westinghouse, and with the Navy and Air Force, which are also atom-minded. "The intent," he says, "is to increase the tempo and get more aggressive and effective work going...
...Whorf has also done some or all of the directing and here his fast tempo has been put to better use. Most of the action takes place in the Tower of London and a single set and part of the orchestra is used. The scenes flow rapidly one into the other by use of lights, rather than curtains and there is seldom a moment, without visual activity. When Richard is soliloquizing on his villainy, there is a red light, presumably from Hell, shining upon him. During the battle scene, which is done all in silhouette and with imaginary weapons...
...making up for lost time. Unlike many visiting composers, who felt just as sure of themselves with a baton as with a pen, Poulenc wouldn't be caught dead on a podium. Says he, throwing up his hands: "I have no tempo." Instead, Manhattan audiences saw him first as piano accompanist to Baritone Pierre Bernac in a recital of the songs which, along with his religious choral works, have won Poulenc his share of fame. This week, a Carnegie Hall audience would hear him, too, as soloist with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in his melodic Concert Champ...
...Modern Tempo. In Portland, Ore., Frank A. Staeger, questioned for holding up traffic, explained to police that he had fallen asleep while waiting for the light to change...