Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country performers who had twanged for Carter on the campaign trail, including Tennessee's Charlie Daniels. "When I was broke and didn't have any money for my campaign," recalled Jimmy, "Charlie Daniels gave a benefit performance for me. I might not be President today without his help." Nor without that of Loretta Lynn, who last week launched into a First Family favorite, How Great Thou Art, after announcing: "Rosy, this is for you and Jimmy." Carter told the crowd he often "turns to country music to remind me of my home, my roots...
...poem," Mallarmé once wrote, "conceals itself, is present-is active-in the space that surrounds the stanzas and in the white of the paper: a meaningful silence, no less wonderful to compose than the lines themselves." And again: "To conjure up . . . the negated object, with the help of allusive and indirect words, which constantly efface themselves in a complementary silence . . . comes close to the act of creation...
...death two months after Gelsey's 16th birthday momentarily brought the sisters together but did not dampen a long-simmering rivalry between the two. Gelsey's determination to be a better dancer than anyone else definitely included Johnna. Soon the sisters did not speak. Balanchine apparently did not help matters. Johnna remembers him asking Gelsey, "Why can't you do an adagio like your sister? Go home with your sister and have her teach you how to do an adagio." Johnna was told to learn jumping from Gelsey. The result was predictable. Says Johnna: "We really, at one point...
...always done before, Gelsey took steps. This time, though, her single-mindedness promised a confrontation with the demiurge of 20th century dance. Balanchine's classes are known for their remorseless speed. Gelsey not only sought the help of outside teachers, she dropped Balanchine's class entirely. What she wanted to learn from others was an approach that was both less punishing and more effective...
...rape prevention workshop will begin today at Phillips Brooks House. The workshop is an effort to help Harvard females adopt a "posture which will reduce the probability of rape if they are threatened," Arthur Fitzhugh, Harvard police agent and coordinator of the program, said yesterday...