Word: excellencies
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...Carnivals get all the publicity," he continued, "but I am just as satisfied if the guys excel in the individual open competitions...
...music-hall format in which the Standwells excel has attracted a number of well-known admirers, among them Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Duo-pianists Gold and Fizdale, and Sir John Gielgud. Perhaps the highest professional compliment the Standwells ever received was from Director-Choreographer Jerome Robbins. While experimenting with repertory theater in 1967, Robbins bought out the theater one night and invited his cast. He had been impressed by a puppet performance of a scene from Romeo and Juliet; that evening, he asked Peschka and Murdock to repeat the scene, leaving out the words but explaining their puppets' actions...
...players I've coached here really want to excel," he continued. "They enjoy a challenge, and that makes them work harder. In fact, last year, they complained because they weren't being worked hard enough. That indicates to me that they have the determination to play good football, and so I'm not going to push or pressure them...
...matter how significantly they equal or excel their male counterparts intellectually, there must be a fifteen to twenty-year hiatus in their intellectual life while they (most of them) fulfill their traditional role as mothers and/or "home-makers...
...inspirational terms. "The real reason for undertaking the space program," says one Apollo defender, Physicist Harold Urey, who is quoted in Journey to Tranquility, "is an innate characteristic of human beings, namely, some curious drive to try to do what might be thought to be impossible-to try to excel in one way or another." Urey compares such drives to the devotion that led to the building of the Parthenon and St. Peter's, which represented real sacrifice for many people. The space program, Urey concluded, "is our cathedral." The authors give Urey his due, but they point...