In the years 1957-59, Kynagain again shows, rather than tells, how countless town planners committed to demolishing Britain's physical past and to constructing, with incredible rapidity, what most seem not to have doubted was a glorious improvement.
Fixing his gaze relentlessly on his auditors, he hammered home, with a kind of frowning rapidity, what were, on reflection, a set of simple and middle-of-the road social reforms.
In May 1861 Confederate Henry Hotze wrote: It is marvellous with what wild-fire rapidity this tune "Dixie" has spread over the whole South.
That the social climate of the nation has changed so seismically and with such jolting rapidity is what this movement is really about.
What is notable is its rapidity.
What struck us all was the rapidity of change after death: the stiffness, the immobility.
What is different now is the rapidity of readers' response, and the critic's ability to reply with similar speed.
"But I can also understand that the times are what they are, and with the rapidity of the measures, they don't want to get involved in a war of attrition with the unions".
What is still surprising is the rapidity of eye evolution, because compound eyes with over 3,000 ommatidia were discovered in the early Cambrium, some 515 Ma, in early arthropods.
"What is fascinating about Sarkozy is the rapidity with which he can react," Mr. Cohn-Bendit said.
