Word: tempoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real; but the man (well enough played by Walter Abel) is not convincing. Nor has Playwright van Druten sufficiently concentrated on The Mermaids Singing as a romantic duet. He has thrown in a mixed choir of nonfunctional minor characters who spoil the play's tone and slacken its tempo...
...music in swing tempo will be rendered by Eddie Wittstein and his music-makers at the informal dance in Yale's Paine Whitney Gymnasium on the evening of December 1; he is tuning up for a turnout of at least 1100 couples. An admission charge of $3.60 per couple will help allay the expenses, $850 of which is allotted for decorations alone. No corsages will be allowed...
...mind had not been extravagant dreams of glory. Years of feeling himself an outcast had led him to picture paradise as a place in which everything was average and normal. Consequently, his dreams (and later, his novels) were built out of the most everyday events, moved precisely in the tempo of everyday Victorian life, and partook of that era's utter confidence in its own continuation...
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). Pedantic Brahms would raise an eyebrow at Ormandy's changes of tempo, but he would find it pretty good music just the same. Performance and recording: good...
...islands of Japan. They were torpedo planes, dive bombers, at least three varieties of fighters and the great B-29 Superforts. They struck in daylight and at night from all directions and they hit with everything-six-pound jellied-gasoline fire bombs, high-explosive factory busters and rockets. The tempo grew faster & faster. Latest scores...