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...Cambridge there is a tempo, there is a serenity, there is calm accretion of culture and knowledge...
...chemist such a box on both ears that his deafness is partially ascribed to it. Thus he developed an interest in aural matters which eventually led to the telephone, dictograph, phonograph, talking cinema. Hence a slight interest in music: "I think the best music is that which has a tempo which corresponds to half of our heart-beat." For other cultural or even gustatory enjoyments he had no interest because no time. In his later years he lived principally on fruit, tapioca and milk. He once spoke of ". . . philosophy and the rest of that ninny stuff...
...electromagnetism. Faraday (1791-1867)* found that a magnet induced an electric current in a wire, that an electric current in a. wire magnetized a piece of iron. From the complementary relation ship of magnetism and electricity came the dynamo, a multitude of other de vices, and a new tempo to civilization...
...first mentioned number, the finale to the first part of the program, the climax of the evening is reached, especially in the parts where Annanias Berry (the most elongated and the most able of the Berry brothers) races in to do his almost incredible dances to a tempo and rhythm that conforms to the best of Negro traditions. In short, the black people do up the "Rhapsody in Blue" brown...
...Author has enriched his pages with painstaking scholarship, has attained some of the flavor of the historical novels of Scott and Stevenson. But only in the last chapters of The Blanket oj the Dark does his story drop its studious tempo, achieve the needed breathlessness of cloak-&-sword drama. Aged 55, John Buchan served in the War as London Times correspondent and as intelligence officer, has written a capable history of it. He lives at Oxford, serves as Member of Parliament besides writing and publishing. Says he: "I have to live on a very strict schedule. From Monday to Friday...