Word: grit
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...Teacher burnout" indeed. What American education needs is more grit and determination and less weeping and wailing. Too many teachers have been coddled too long. Test every one of them. They should either measure up or flunk right out of the classroom...
Christmas trees. When yellow grit from Nebraska sifted through the White House doors during the Dust Bowl years, F.D.R. became an avid student of the causes of the drought and possible defenses against the blowing topsoil. Lyndon Johnson used to tell how he won Roosevelt's approval for a dam on the lower Colorado River by enticing the President with pictures of various other dams, a subject dear to Roosevelt's heart...
...True Grit...
...Stroheim) and the best-documented veterans (Gloria Swanson, King Vidor, Lillian Gish). Even the trivia somehow does not seem trivial. It is touching to hear Frank Capra recall Mack Sennett's sad mansion full of unread books and overdressed servants. Director Henry Hathaway, who remained active past True Grit (1969), wittily brings back the days when his job was to follow DeMille around with a chair on location. A writer remembers the shock of seeing her credits on a silent version of Macbeth: "By William Shakespeare. Titles by Anita Loos...
...Democratic National Convention itself. We had paid well to acquire the entire blueprints for the convention hall and all its support machinery. The plan called for a commando team of Cubans to slip into the hall and sabotage the air-conditioning units by destroying the compressors and introducing grit into the bearings of the blowers. Even John Mitchell smiled as I asked them to imagine those Democrats when, in the 100° Miami summer weather, all the air conditioning went out and the temperature inside the hall reached 110° or more...