Word: frail
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Today, the music of this small, frail man with the burning eyes of a visionary has found a home in the world's concert halls. If it has proved less popular than Igor Stravinsky's and less influential than Arnold Schoenberg's, it is no less important. BartÓk wrote music of irresistible power and drive, music that in its uncompromising frankness and depth of expression discomfited audiences used to the prettifications of romanticism. Like other great musical figures - Beethoven and Wagner come immediately to mind - BartÓk was a destroyer as well...
...California desert adjoining Arizona has been picked almost clean of saguaro, red-barrel cacti and other species. It takes a cactus-naper 15 min. to uproot a plant that may have taken more than a century to develop. And the frail root systems of most big cacti seldom survive the shock of transplanting. Plant experts in Arizona estimate that their cactus population, a major part of the flora, will virtually have disappeared in three or four decades. Though scientists do not entirely understand the full role of Cactaceae in the delicate ecology of the desert, they do know that...
...Jean Harris, you're coming to join us!" Harris was led to her own 5-ft. by 7-ft. pink room, out of sight from most of the other inmates. A guard explained, "We don't want anyone to assault her." Harris' closest neighbor is a frail, wealthy and well-traveled woman who is awaiting trial for second-degree murder, charged with shooting her 68-year-old husband at the breakfast table. Though Harris was put on a 24-hour suicide watch-and some observers claimed she was starting a hunger strike when she refused "tasteless" prison...
...young king saves a frail democracy
Labor's new leftists advocate frightening doctrines "This government has got to be forced out of office!" cried a Young Socialist and self-professed "Trotskyite" at an anti-Thatcher rally earlier this winter. As the thunderous roar of approval died down, the frail, white-maned figure of Labor Party Leader Michael Foot stepped to the microphone. "Throw the government out!" yelled Foot. Then he cautioned: "But prepare to destroy at the ballot...