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...explain why you are holding the instrument that way? Up, up! Higher!"? Or the virtuoso who appeared onstage with the Orchestre National de France and the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique, the rosette of the Légion d'Honneur pinned in his lapel, and tossed off the feat of playing 15 major works, from Mozart to Samuel Barber, during a sequence of eight concerts...
...agricultural output has risen by an average of 3% annually since 1953. Even though the diet remains starchy and the nation's overburdened and inefficient distribution system produces periodic shortages of everything from pork to potatoes, per capita food consumption has nonetheless more than doubled since 1951, a feat unmatched by any other advanced nation. Industrial growth has also been heady; the Soviet gross national product, a mere 40% of the U.S.'s in 1955, is 60% today...
Every other day somebody does something that has never been done before. Or else repeats some improbable feat-only faster, deeper, higher, with different equipment or at a different age. The act of dying is one of the very few human activities that do not stir up competitive fever among people. "After Sir Edmund Hillary," says Boston Globe Columnist M.R. Montgomery, "you can climb Everest on a pogo stick without attracting envy or admiration." But, in fact, once the notion of climbing a mountain by pogo stick has been conceived, it would not be surprising if somebody...
...extended military metaphor is Solzhenitsyn's own. Scarcely any other image is large enough to encompass the feat of a writer who consistently outwitted and outmaneuvered Nikita Khrushchev, the KGB and the Soviet literary establishment in the pursuit of his mission: to bear witness to the Gulag before his countrymen and the world...
...Crimson raquetmen accomplished the feat in gut-wrenching fashion, first eking out a narrow upset over Princeton, then swinging past favored Penn and archrival Yale to capture the crown...