Word: tempoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...composing herself. One little number, Chanson de Marie Antoinette, based on a melody supposedly by the Queen, has long been part of the standard vocal repertory. Last week, revarnished and renamed My Heart Cries for You, the Chanson had become 1951's first big hit. Its sprightly tempo had been slowed by Conductor-Composer Percy Faith to a lazy waltz, and its elegant tale of pastoral courtship changed to a monotonous lover's lament.* Result: the song is a favorite with crooners, hillbilly specialists and barroom baritones. Six of its eleven recorded versions (including those by Guy Mitchell...
Comparing itself to "a Woman who wants to keep step with the modern tempo," the Harvard Alumni Bulletin has abandoned its conservative dark red cover and substituted a new, brighter red and white jacket...
...another dance. It wags its abdomen from side to side, runs forward a few steps, turns around, runs forward and wags again. The more rapid the turning and wagging, the closer the honey lies. Dr. von Frisch fed scout bees at varied distances from the hive and timed the tempo of their dancing. He found that when they made nine or ten complete dance cycles in 15 seconds, it meant that the honey flowers were 100 meters away. Seven cycles meant 200 meters; 4½ cycles meant 1,000 meters. The matching bees time the dance, as Dr. von Frisch...
...Panic. While the infantrymen in the line drew back slowly before the Chinese assault, the evacuation at the dockside went on apace. There was no panic, no disorder. But the tempo of the operation stepped up sharply. At the docks themselves, U.S., Norwegian and Japanese merchant ships took on load after load of trucks, tanks, gasoline, rations, dismantled aircraft, jeeps, tents and kitchen stoves. The black, mud-choked roads within the dock area were jammed bumper to bumper with mud-spattered supply trains grinding and slithering down to the ships. The supply convoys passed acres of gasoline drums, quarter-mile...
Behind the glassy facade of Strasbourg's "Capitol of Europe," the delegations of 15 nations finally came to a decision on the tempo and technique of European union. By a weighty majority (82 to 19, with 16 abstentions), the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe last week voted 1) to go slowly, and 2) to travel toward the goal via intergovernmental "specialized agencies...