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...nights, the sort of performers who have made the Vanguard the Mecca of Hip for the past half-century: jazz diva Shirley Horn, Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, cafa swell Bobby Short, folk singer Pete Seeger and Professor Irwin Corey, the "World's Foremost Authority," who was once a comic mainstay of the club. Back in the '40s, when the Vanguard's founder, the late Max Gordon, asked the professor whether he thought the place would last 60 years, Corey replied, "It's a small club...
...Right now, it's been a mainstay of my life and been the most exciting kind of teaching and challenging teaching I've ever done," he said...
...guidelines say there is no limit on the maximum dose of morphine, a mainstay of pain control. Very large doses--hundreds of milligrams a day in some cases--may be needed to treat extreme pain...
...Olympic silver medalist Paul Wylie, agrees: "It helps that she knows the whole country is behind her." She has only to enter her family's home in Stoneham, Massachusetts, for reassurance. The dining room is filled with tubs of unopened mail. Her close family has always been her mainstay, the lump of gold Harding never had. But the struggle to vault their daughter to the top has been tough on the Kerrigans; father Dan is a welder, mother Brenda is legally blind. When Nancy began lessons, the family thought she might follow the path of her young coach, Theresa Martin...
Ruskin would not, however, have approved of Freud's nudes, any more than some feminists do today. These figures, splayed under the inquisitorial electric light and the downward gaze of the artist, are the mainstay of his work, and the fierceness with which they reject the softening conventions of the "studio nude" has provoked a bumper crop of balderdash about Freud's supposed misogyny and sexism. (Freud's own riposte, in a recent interview, was terse: "I think the idea of misogyny is a stimulant to feminists, and it's rather like anti-Semites looking for Jewish noses everywhere...