Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poher had no illusions about his chances. Nearly a week before the balloting, he promised to send Pompidou a congratulatory telegram on election night once the outcome was clear, "just the way a defeated presidential candidate does in the U.S." Nonetheless, he felt it his duty to campaign as hard as he could, and campaign he did. During a hastily organized blitz of twelve cities and towns, he pushed the cause of a revived center-left government and an end to Gaullism. Poher hit hard at the large state-security apparatus built up by De Gaulle, but still refused...
...work's savage shafts of power. He does not much care for Brahms, Tchaikovsky, or Bruckner, but his conducting of Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn has been superb in its structural logic. During his Philharmonic stay, he attracted a younger, more intellectual audience than usual. Even the hard-to-please orchestra was impressed with his mentality and uncanny ear. "He's probably got the greatest musical ear in the world," says Saul Goodman, who has been playing timpani for the orchestra since the Mengelberg days of the late 1920s...
...Patience. It is hard to imagine a man with a clearer eye or a more far-ranging mind. Leonardo might stop work on a painting to dissect a cadaver and make meticulous studies of its musculature so that he could better understand the twist of a body or the shape of an arm. He took as his province the total knowledge of mankind (which was then manageable), and painting was only a part of it. Even when he was famed the length and breadth of Italy and crowned heads and prelates were besieging him for paintings, he pronounced himself...
...Virtually nothing is going into the savings account," says Wayne Costley. "I'm still in my 30s, but I don't have the freedom to enjoy these years. There's no boat, there are no trips. I work hard, but it amounts to Nancy's going on vacation with the kids once in four years...
...four days out of five last week. Altogether, it declined 30 points, to 895. In four weeks, the average has fallen 72 points, or 7%, and is now at its lowest level since last August. All the signals from Wall Street and Washington say that more strain, sacrifice and hard decisions lie ahead for the economy...