Word: tempo
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...tempo of change has increased, prophecy has become an increasingly hazardous undertaking. Most recent predictions in retrospect seem unaccountably timid; one has the feeling that the prophets of late have failed to recognize the most fundamental aspect of scientific endeavor today--its incredible, accelerating rate of discovery and accomplishment...
...matter how intricate the notes on top are, the lower levels are never blurred. In Liszt's day, probably, it was fashionable to play the piece with less precision, but Horowitz's precision is not wooden. He makes liberal use of rubato, and he has so much control of tempo and volume that he can build up phrases spanning large segments of the soata...
...Australia a few months later, members of the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association looked up from an outdoor luncheon to see one of their members approaching followed by "a wandering Yank who sort of popped in and wants to sing us a song." Buddy gave them up-tempo renderings of Waltzing Matilda and Seven Old Ladies. The N.S.W.T.A. members responded with For He's a Jolly Good Fellow and a gift of a tennis racket and a pair of sneakers. While in Australia Buddy even acquired an agent-as the price of playing on television in Sydney. When...
...Fagin glints with eccentricity. This Fagin is not very Jewish (he has been viewed without alarm by representatives of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith), but he is a strangely epicene miser whose furtive batlike swoopings on his treasure box and triple-tempo fingering of his baubles provide comic delight...
...second period the wind blew stronger than before, making it difficult for either team to move the ball. But in the second half, the tempo of play increased as each team again managed to score...