Word: limps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Copland finds that he does his best work after dinner, keeping at it until about 2 a.m. He has no plans for a new opera to follow The Tender Land, the rather limp work premiered in 1954. "Opera," says Copland, "eats up three years of your time; then everything's decided in one night." His work in progress: a chamber piece for nine solo strings. The orchestration was obvious, says Copland, from the moment "I got the material"-and he points gravely to the ceiling, to show that it was a gift from above...
After the game, Neal, still chasing around the field, cornered a dejected Charlie Ravenel and a jubilant Tom Singleton to hear Neal tell what great competitors they were. The game but limp Crimson quarterback, with tears in his eyes, shook hands with Singleton, the Yale whom he had bettered as a freshman, sophomore, and junior. Only in his last appearance when running far below full speed because of a knee injury did Ravenel lose to his Yale counterpart. Although lame, Ravenel still stole the show from Singleton, who has played well in each of the four rivalries...
...prestigious New York Times, which has not endorsed a Democrat since 1944, when it recommended a fourth term for Franklin Roosevelt after opposing him for Terms II and III, came out for Kennedy in a limp and stodgy statement: "In the field of foreign policy . . . despite their sharp dispute over Quemoy and Matsu, the two candidates are in substantial agreement . . . But Senator Kennedy's approach . . . except for his momentary blunder suggesting intervention in Cuba . . . seems to us to be more reasoned, less emotional, more flexible, less doctrinaire, more imaginative, less negative." On domestic policy a Democratic President will have...
...hope--in fact, reasonable expectation--that these adjustments can be made that the United States can have a foreign policy other than shouting "Black!" when the Soviets shout "White!", that diplomatic initiative can be recaptured in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Mr. Nixon by contrast, can offer nothing but limp defenses of Eisenhower mistakes, extravagant postures ("We shall not yield an inch of the area of freedom") and misleading claims ("There were eleven dictators in Latin America when we came in; now there are only three. . . . I call that progress...
Ravenel, who suffered a sprained knee ligament early in the Massachusetts game Oct. 1, is off crutches now but still has a pronounced limp...