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INDUSTRY: "Nothing justifies exaggerated industrialization . . . The tempo of building heavy industry must be slowed down. The emphasis should be on commodities and the food industry...
Last week the magazine. II Tempo forecast that the coming election will be very close: about 13,500,000 votes for the Christian Democratic coalition, and 12,500,000 for the totalitarian extremes...
...when the reviews came out, it began to look like the same old story. Most critics rapped the opera, and some were scathing. The critic of Rome's Il Tempo totted up demerits: "Music? Zero. Originality? Artistic taste? Zero." There was a minority of approvals, led by Milan's influential Corriere della Sera: "A vibrant success . . . Menotti is an artist of tradition, a most Italian artist." Said Menotti: "Well, the reviews weren't all good, but the good ones were real raves-the first I've gotten in Italy. I must admit it feels wonderful...
...midst of a baffling wave of burglaries in downtown Burlington, Vt., Sheriff Dewey Perry sensed a strange new atmosphere around " his jailhouse. "There was something wrong about the tempo," he said. "Everything was too quiet." Searching for the cause, the sheriff came across a shaky-looking brick wall in the jailhouse basement. With one finger, he pushed bricks out on to Main Street. Then he searched his twelve prisoners. Frederick Hamelin had $60 in his pocket, another $145 sewn neatly into his pillow. Clyde B. Hamblin had $143 hidden in his bedding. Hamblin's and Hamelin's cells...
...performance by a small chorus under Hewitt Pantalconi adhered admirably to this spirit. There was little difference in tempo between the movements; the dynamic modulations were of the most discreet and tasteful sort. The singers' pure tone and accurate intonation were not, as is often done, made ends in themselves thus necessitating an unbearably slow tempo. If anything, the tempo seemed at times rushed; yet this was a small price to pay for the clean delineation of interweaving vocal lines and logical enunciation of phrase patterns which resulted...