Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyone with normal power of will can succeed as I did, I feel sure. In 1910, after an attack lasting several days, I determined to end the nuisance in future by bringing the diaphragm under direct control of the will. During future attacks, as I felt the recurrent spasms coming, I concentrated my will power to inhibit it. This entailed an exhausting struggle worse than hiccups, but it was successful . . . When I find I am hiccuping I simply stop, just as I would stop twiddling my watch chain, for instance...
...Matisse one of the greatest painters living. But the moment the camera closes in on the 78-year-old master himself, Matisse takes charge. Blinking a little behind his gold-rimmed glasses (the floodlights apparently bothered him), Matisse faces the camera and his invisible interrogator with a grandfatherly smile, direct and forceful...
...those who like their jazz pure, an airing of Bob Wilbur's New Orlcans artists direct from their den in Boston's Club Savey will be a weekly feature...
...those who like their jazz pure, an airing of Bob Willbur's New Orleans artists direct from their den in Boston's Club Savoy will be a weekly feature...
...aristocrats, the industrialists, the royal playboys and the royal concubines has passed into her hands. She runs Rumania. Her title is Foreign Minister, but her job is that of Stalin's proconsul. Of the seven telephones on her office desk one is said to be a direct line to the Kremlin. Asked if she had permission to call Stalin at any hour, Ana answered: "When the occasion arises, I can reach...