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...junior Jeff Grate (6 ft. 1 in.), Harvard has an impressive backcourt, but there is no one up front to be a leader. When a team falls behind in a game, inexperienced players might tend to start shooting more, and lose control of the tempo of the game. An upperclassman who has been through the Ivy grind would certainly help...
...three-year outpouring of Great Society legislation the time had come to slow down and consolidate. It was less a reaction than a resistance to further grandiose programs, less a change in direction than in tempo. "The people wanted to pause and do a little inventorying," said Reagan. "They've been asking, 'Just where are we going?' " Democrats agreed. New York Senator Robert Kennedy acknowledged: "Some parts of the country want to go slower than others." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield conceded that the time had come for Congress to do some "tightening up" of the programs that he helped...
Thanks to the driving tempo and inventive direction of Joseph Chaikin and Jacques Levy and the flawlessly integrated playing of a versatile cast, Playwright Van Itallie conveys an especially timely sensation, that of a world of fragmented experience so speeded up past human endurance that a man must either die laughing or go mad. America Hurrah is as lively as a sand tick. It is anguishingly funny, yet oddly poignant, and more than passing wise in the ways of today's world...
Rock 'n' Roll is more than a day-dreamin' boy sippin' lemonade in the summer in the city. Rock 'n' Roll is more than music. It is a thorny, destructive way of life directed by the tempo of the cash register. Unless you believe in magic, you'd better stay away from the Rock 'n' Roll scene...
...Couperin's Le Parnasse ou l'apotheose de Corelli. Hathaway played his own harpsichord part, waving a free hand whenever possible at the small group on either side. He seemed caught in the middle in more than one way, however, since the violins and cellos often disagreed on the tempo, the one rushing ahead of Hathaway and the other lagging behind. For the rest the performance was superb--the parts all meshed and precision triumphed over muddle. The programmatic aspect of the music (each movement represents a scene, such as the awakening of Corelli by the muses) was forthrightly...