Word: tempoed
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...normally British in that I don't want to get too big . . . We have always been able to sell all we wanted. Where you get people who have been working together for a long time, you just can't break them of their habits. There is a tempo that goes with the business and gets ingrained into...
...Years Too Soon. Faced with such facts, U.S. corporations have awakened to the acute need to help prolong the lives of their executives. As the tempo of industrial life speeded up during the war so did the death rate. In General Motors alone, 189 of its top management group died in five war years. Good executives scarce enough in wartime, have become even harder to get in the postwar boom. Companies which once regarded an executive as expendable but fortunately replaceable have changed their thinking...
...teach my grandmother to suck eggs." They confidently expected to have their own way with the music: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Haydn's Symphony No. 73, and the William Tell overture. But they were in for a rude shock. The young maestrina had her own ideas about tempo-generally she likes it faster than the London Philharmonic does-and she rapped them to a halt time & again to tell them...
...like so many U.S. critics, the Italian reviewers were tough. Wrote Il Messaggero: "Overloaded, slow, cold, sometimes even annoying, without that alacrity, that concentration, that surprise, that stimulus . . ." Giornale d'Italia: "Artificial characters . . . commonplace grandiosity ..." Il Tempo: "[Quo Vadis] leaves the Italian public disturbed and perplexed. We have studied Rome and the Romans in school, and every day along our streets we meet their memories in stone. It cannot give us pleasure to see them camouflaged as clowns, or, to put the best light on it, as cowboys...
...Berezowsky, once a violinist with the Coolidge Quartet and now a staff musician at CBS, turned in an hour-long score of easy melodies and rather plush harmonies. When an elephant became perplexed, the violins and xylophone played good-humored glissandos. When a camel strode, the tuba booped in tempo. And when a song showed signs of becoming too sugary, its harmonies were spiced with dissonance. Berezowsky's best moments came in the circus scene, when he let him self go in razzle-dazzle imitations of a wind band...