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PALC and Afro's belief that Harvard could have been the fulcrum to help lever Gulf and eventually Portugal out of Africa seems well founded. With an eye toward triggering the initial move in the sequence--Harvard's public divestiture--the two groups quickened their organizing tempo last Spring culminating with the six-day occupation of Mass Hall. In the process, they skillfully orchestrated a campaign that included intelligible leaflets, reasonable demands devoid of shrill rhetoric, and a sensitive appreciation of the difficulty of informing the community on an initially obscure issue. When their campaign peaked with the occupation, picket...
With those words, typically skittering from Shakespeare to the Bible, North Carolina's Democratic Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. was stepping up the rapidly accelerating tempo in a showdown over secrecy between the U.S. Senate and President Nixon. If the President will not allow his aides to testify publicly and under oath before the Select Senate Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, Ervin vows, he will seek to have them arrested...
...technical counterpart of this in Coward's plays is that he vastly speeded up the tempo of comedy. Relying on single lines of dialogue, he produced instant repartee in which talk became a blindingly fast game of inflective one-upmanship rather than a declaration of meaning or a display of passion. Even within individual lines, he inserted a word or phrase that mockingly deflated the emotion it expressed. Thus Elyot says to Amanda in Private Lives: "You're looking very lovely in this damned moonlight, Amanda." Repeated time and again, this approach almost makes Coward the granddaddy...
PLUMB WRITES ABOUT everything from Detroit today to insane asylums for the last half millenium, and in case anyone objects that the two really are not so different, he throws in reflections on Samuel Pepys's diaries, Victorian social habits, and the tempo of life in Edwardian England...
...individual title. Hurme has lost once, Fernandez twice, and the two epee men will meet in today's competition. The match should be a classic. Both fencers are Olympians, Hurme for Finland and Fernandez from Mexico. They are outstanding fencers of completely different styles. Hurme is a "tempo-rhythm" type of fencer, who always keeps moving; Fernandez is basically a point man, working around the arms and going for the feet...