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...competitor has no chance to use the same muscles and reflexes twice in succession. The cumulative effect is numbing. Because of his rare combination of speed and strength, Johnson is at his best in the 100 meters, 400 meters, the javelin, discus and shotput. But his weight is a handicap in the pole vault and high jump and, like every big man, he detests the 1,500-meter event that closes the two days of struggle. "The whole decathlon is ridiculous," says Johnson, "but the 1,500 meters is insanity." Why does he compete? Johnson gives the perfectionist...
...never got was the intangible factor diplomats call "presence"-confident acceptance of the OAS by its members as the competent and natural body to handle big inter-American problems. Hindering such presence is the feeling that the OAS is dominated by the U.S. Lately, Cuba has added another handicap in the form of a deliberate anti-OAS campaign. Last month, calling the OAS Washington's "Ministry of Colonies," it tried, unsuccessfully, to take its dispute with the U.S. directly to the U.N. Security Council. In such an atmosphere, the OAS this week faces its most important challenge...
...play must be judged in performance. The text should be read as an indication of what happens on a stage, and criticism that loses sight of this essential point will go astray. (Even such a brilliantly perceptive and original critic of Shakespeare as John Dover Wilson acknowledges the handicap that he works under when competing with a critic who is also a man of the theater, such as Harley Granville-Barker.) Styan might have made the additional point, recently emphasized by Fredson Bowers in Textual and Literary Criticism, that discussion of early plays must have its foundations in scientific bibliography...
...below the knees on an Army night patrol in France during World War II when a land mine blew up under him. The victory of another legless veteran, Republican Charles Potter, who got elected to the U.S. Senate from Michigan in 1952, encouraged Swainson to enter politics despite his handicap. He beat out favored Secretary of State James Hare by a decisive 70,000 votes...
...horribly credible, detailed illustration of Poet Randall Jarrell's line: "From my mother's sleep I fell into the State." Shrewd, wary, knowing, and precociously cynical, Dinger is yet troubled by Wordsworthian intimations of immortality. Dimly, he is aware that the presence of a soul is a handicap in his strife with life. Of the soul, he observes: "I'd rather have a sock full of two-bob bits." Thus, it is not a tram but a moral issue that runs over Dinger Bell. By the time he has won his first stripe, Dinger also wears...