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...object that changes in brilliance cannot be larger than the distance light would travel during the period of fluctuation. Even the crowded nuclei of normal galaxies are many thousand light-years in diameter, so no known influence could cross them quickly enough to make them flicker on a monthly tempo. An object that flickers so fast would have to be less than one light-year in diameter, unless it follows physical laws that are wholly unsuspected by human scientists...
...York is vast, it is tiny as well more provincial than Muncie, Indiana. Stop in one of 3000-plus neighborhood churches some Sunday, and feel the Mad. Ave. tempo melt away. New York is the town where a barber, when you ask for a shave, will tell you that you need a haircut; where a million people dwell within a 3-block radius--smaller than a midwestern village, yet containing all commodities (drugstore, bar, movie, etc.) necessary for life. Some get the jitters, or get lost, one block beyond that circumscribed universe. Others never leave...
Jack went back to the music, jabbing his baton at a singer who had lost the tempo and nodding and smiling as friends came into the dining room to see how Mozart was faring. The atmosphere was extremely friendly and informal, rather more like a rehearsal for a children's recital than for a grand opera whose cast had to practice its lines and blocking and learn to keep in tempo by opening nights, now only four days away...
...Swingle Singers, however, sing it straight in the most elementary scat dialect-mainly "da-ba, da-ba" and "doo-boo, doo-boo," with an occasional "papa-da, chin-chin" or "waap" tossed in for special accents. While the revved-up tempo calls for a certain amount of vocal gymnastics, they stick faithfully to the score and never improvise. In fact, their allegiance is much more to Bach than it is to jazz. Their approach is restrained, respectful, and marked by finely honed precision and musicianship...
From then on, the tempo at TIME began to escalate-but not drastically. After all, from Korea and Hungary to the Wall and Cuba, crises have become almost routine...