Word: frailness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Madison Square Garden's track curl out eleven uneventful laps to the mile. Other athletes strain to feel the thin snap of the finish tape; Delany beats them to it with deceptive ease. In the mile run at the Knights of Columbus games last week, the pale, frail-looking Irishman loafed through the first 8½ laps as if lazing along the banks of the Liffey back home. He stayed an easy third; suddenly, almost imperceptibly, he moved to second, then, with a lap and a half to go. he dug in. In that brief suggestion of his tremendous...
...overstuffed parlor of an ungainly green-and-yellow hilltop house in Connecticut, the master of the harpsichord, stately, 77-year-old Wanda Landowska, sat down before the piano morning after morning to record her conception of Mozart. Around the frail old woman, in her gold slippers and purple kimono, hovered the engineers. For four and five hours at a stretch they recorded together, listened, recorded again. The fruits of a year's recording, released in a new RCA Victor album, constitute perhaps the most important single contribution to Mozart interpretation in his bicentennial year...
What gives power to the 47-in.-by-24-in. painting is the fact that it is obviously rooted in reality. The frail figure of 72-year-old Mrs. Merle Davis James is just as Wyeth saw her last summer in her house a mile from Wyeth's summer place in Gushing, Me. Stricken successively with a severe muscular disease, a heart attack and pneumonia, Mrs. James had finally climbed out from under an oxygen tent, snapped at the nurse, "All this is ridiculous." Wyeth, impressed and moved by her spirit and courage, set out to paint her during...
Gabrielle died quietly on a spring day, slipping away so imperceptibly that she seemed to have made her "sign of love upon the air up to the very last minutes." Her mother and father looked only once at the frail, empty corpse and then left, "wheeling a baby carriage piled high with books, dolls, toys, two suitcases, and no baby . . ." Author Gabrielson has written this cry from the heart with courage and competence. It may well bring a measure of consolation to other grieving parents. And, to all readers, it will be a signal affirmation of the human spirit that...
When the satellite finally reaches space it may be followed on its orbit by a frail, light, short-lived companion. Developed by William J. O'Sullivan Jr. (following a long-discussed idea), the inflated sub-satellite is a balloon of Mylar plastic .0025 in. thick covered with an aluminum film .0006 in. thick. When released from the third-stage rocket, it will weigh 10½ oz. complete and look like a wad of aluminum foil. A small capsule of compressed dry nitrogen will expand the plastic to a sphere 20 in. in diameter, which will follow at first...