Word: tempoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tempo...
There is general dissatisfaction with the pace of life, which they call "the tempo...
Little Man in Chinatown (Jim Lowe; Dot). The tempo is high, the ricks are ticking and the song is a shaggy Pekinese. The teaser: "In case you wonder what this story is. here it is. here it is. here...
...when Authoress Metalious is not all flustered by sex, she captures a real sense of the tempo, texture and tensions in the social anatomy of a small town. Her ear for local speech is unflinching down to the last four-letter word, and her characters have a sort of rawboned vitality that may produce low animal moans in many a critic's throat...
...cloth which, held up at one end, hangs together all of a piece. The Pritchett short story is just the opposite. It exists (as modern life does, in Pritchett's view) "in fragments rather than as solid mass," and exults in bursts of fire, sharp changes of tempo, explosions of mood. And it is usually extremely cheerful, regardless of what it is about-as if the characters, like their author, were glad to escape from the stiffer world of Pritchett criticism...