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...manual and pedal dexterity, however, is admirable. Except for the final number on Thursday's program, he played with great accuracy: there were fewer than a dozen slips of finger or toe--an unusually high batting average for an organ recital. Biggs chose to end with the celebrated Bach Toccata and Fugue in D-minor, which he has played thousands of times. Evidently he thought he knew it so well that it needed no advance brushing-up. The result was, to put it bluntly, a mess...
...Table Number Seven, the shy, mal-adjusted spinster daughter of a domineering mother is traumatically affected by the disclosure that Major Pollock, her one friend, not only is not a major at all but also has a penchant for taking manual liberties with strange women in movie theatres...
Rinaldo came back-on visit after visit for seven years. And for seven years Alba told Rinaldo it was no use. But she kept thinking about Rinaldo in her long hours of prayer and at her manual labor and her meager meals...
...full life includes manual labor, and three afternoons a week in the fall and spring are devoted to outdoor work. The school could not run if the students did not do this work--the entire outdoor paid staff consists of seven men--which consists of the maintenance of the entire school, including the running of a large farm with a herd of about eighty head...
Executive mouth is not limited to jobs with tension, says Dr. Lynch; even manual laborers with a strong drive to succeed may take their troubles out on their teeth. The executive-mouth victim might conceivably "be a ditchdigger who gets frustrated because he wants to dig better ditches, and somehow...