Word: tempoed
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Everyone has read those words in history books; few know that T.R. spoke them in drumbeat tempo and a high-pitched voice that seem mismatched to the thunderous sentiment. But thanks to Edison, who first recorded the human voice in 1877, T.R.'s words were later etched in wax. Thanks to Michigan State University's new National Voice Library, Americans can now hear his speech, along with 16,000 other voices and sounds going back to the 1880s-everything from Gladstone hailing "the triumph of the phonograph" to Billy
...gave little thought to the preservation of his works, and the scores he left behind contain few indications of the tempo, dynamics or phrasing he intended. As a result, every participant in the current flowering of appreciation for Bach is his own final authority on interpretation. The varieties of approach that were heard last week in the annual Christmas celebration of Bach's music gave proof of the continuing depth of the argument...
...Communists stepped up the offensive tempo, staging 1,021 "incidents," the highest weekly total on record. Their attacks cost the government 925 dead and wounded-again, the highest toll of any week of the war. Communist casualties were estimated at 740, and the guerrillas captured 450 weapons while losing only 140. The worst government setback since the coup occurred in a swampy stretch of the Mekong Delta 100 miles southwest of Saigon, where a band of Viet Cong ambushed an entire government company with mortars and machine guns. Of 130 men, 55 were killed and 34 wounded, six listed...
...chorus line of 36 barelegged beauties on skates swirled in synchronized precision over the ice rink in Indianapolis' State Fairgrounds Coliseum. They wore sequined leotards and yellow-feathered headdresses, and they dipped and swooped together to the ricky-tick tempo of an 18-piece band playing Dixieland. Fireworks sparked near the roof girders, and a family-trade crowd of 4,320 oohed and aahed. This was the finale of the Holiday on Ice show's first night in Indianapolis-a Mardi Gras production number...
...Institute of Agrarian Reform. He is a longtime Communist in a land where, as an experienced Western diplomat puts it, "instinctively the old Communists follow the Moscow line, the new Communists the Peking line." Says Rodríguez: "First we must satisfy our population. If we must reduce the tempo of our industrial development in order to produce consumer goods, then we must...