Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several days after the great moment, Leonard Bernstein was sick in bed in his Washington hotel suite. He looked gaunt, and was exhausted from more than a year's work on the Mass in places as far-flung as Montauk, Tel Aviv and Vienna, and by a final bout of rehearsing that over the past few months has permitted him only three hours' sleep a night. Disappointed but not discouraged by the critical reception of his Mass, Bernstein was overwhelmed by the passionate response he felt it had stirred among the audience in general. On this and other...
...Winston Lord, a special assistant; and Richard Smyser, a Foreign Service officer who is an expert on Southeast Asia. The rest of Kissinger's staff remained behind in Rawalpindi?as much in the dark as anybody else and no doubt hoping that their boss would soon recover from his bout with Delhi belly...
...Kennedy joined TIME's Chicago bureau, later came to New York to become one of our most prolific "entertainment specialists," writing a dozen covers including those on rock 'n' roll, Rowan and Martin, Rudolf Nureyev, and the Frazier-Ali championship bout. Not long after he wrote our cover on television commercials, Kennedy, his wife Patsy and their eight children made a few commercials themselves...
LARRY HINSON, 26, a string-bean-lean blond from Douglas, Ga., won the 1966 N.C.A.A. golf title while a senior at East Tennessee State. Though his left arm is slightly withered from a boyhood bout with polio, he is solidly accurate from tee to green. In 1969, his first full year on the tour, he won $54,267. Last season he pocketed $120,897 and was the eighth-highest scorer on the tour. "I want to win the big four -our Open, the British Open, the P.G.A. and the Masters-then I'll retire. I know what that sounds...
...second or so, but then allowed that, yes, he had given serious thought to homicide "on at least four or five occasions." Prime object of his lethal impulse was British Critic Kenneth Tynan, whom Capote thought "despicable in every conceivable way," a judgment no doubt derived from a verbal bout over the merits of In Cold Blood. Pressed farther by the fascinated Frost, Capote explained, "Most people commit suicide because they can't kill the people who are tormenting them. Instead of bumping them off, they bump themselves off. Well, I'm not like that...