Word: arduousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most lasting impressions. Often she will break off an exercise, recalls a former student, "to quote a poet or philosopher if she thinks it will make us leap higher." Although she now lives in a terrace apartment on Manhattan's East Side, Graham maintains the Spartan life her arduous art calls for: no drinking, daily workouts on the barre. And she is as uncompromising as ever in her approach to her audience. "I want to make people feel intensely alive," says she. "I'd rather have them against me than indifferent...
...Reason, John Hunter's profession was largely a slit-or-miss affair. Anesthesia was virtually unknown; patients scarcely drugged by doses of laudanum or brandy expected only death from the agony of the knife. Untrained midwives often ripped babies' heads from shoulders in the course of arduous labor. The cliquish Corporation of Surgeons had a near monopoly on cadavers for dissection; private anatomy teachers were forced to traffic with the "sack-'em-up men"-the body snatchers...
Christopher and edited by Thomas Griffith, analyzes the population problem in 4,000 words. It is the product of an arduous and expensive month for scores of topflight journalists, a method for producing news coverage that is as authoritative as it is timely...