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This is not to say, however, that the art lacks intricacies: consider the names of the steps-taps, triple wings, toe tips, pendulum wings, cramp rolls, heel drops, heel digs, nerve taps, hops, jumps, heel cramps and flash finishes. Even that formidable array, however, has failed to dampen the enthusiasm of housewives who want to lose weight, businessmen who seek exercise and kids who revel in the chance to make shattering amounts of noise without risking a reprimand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Reveille for Taps | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

...natives don't-that American Puritanism is an anti-passion so powerful as to disorder the reason it purports to support. Beneath their cool New England exteriors, Alonso hints, Emerson and Thoreau-and Bronson-were as gloriously crazy as his own Don Quixote. He knows how consciences can cramp under strain, how idealism can gnarl the mind. He is not joking when he compares the 19th century Utopian experiment at Brook Farm with a Massachusetts mental hospital of today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ralph Disney Emerson | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

...today than it has had in a long time. Several men have recovered enough from injuries to compete without seriously risking reinjury. Sophomores Tom New, Jeff Brokaw, and Marshall Jones will all return to the lineup, and George Barker should be able to run more effectively since his leg cramp has become less bothersome...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Crimson Favored Over Princeton | 10/30/1970 | See Source »

Connolly suffered from a bad cramp in the last mile or so. "It was the worst I've ever had. I thought I was going to die." he explained. Meanwhile, Foye moved past Steve Shirey and Bob Varsha, both of Dartmouth, into seventh place, where he finished...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Harriers Coast To Decisive Win | 10/24/1970 | See Source »

Even more impressive was the fact that Harvard won with such authority despite competing without four good runners. Tom New, Mike Koerner, and Jeff Brokaw never started because of various ailments, and George Barker dropped out after the first mile because of a leg cramp...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Harriers Coast To Decisive Win | 10/24/1970 | See Source »

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