Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's display of Olympian unconcern a wise course? To some, it seemed that the President was once again showing an unwillingness to follow through on major decisions. Through his presidency, they argued, Nixon has sounded the trumpet on one program after another?welfare reform, the governmental reorganization of his "New American Revolution," revenue sharing?and then lost interest in making them work. To engineer a turnaround of the U.S. economy, his critics charge, Nixon must forsake the security of the television screen and reassure doubters in person...
Once again, no one came close to breaking the meet record in the broad jump (25'3") set 50 years ago by Ned Gourdin '21 Harvard's Olympian. S. H. White of Oxford was the winner last night with a leap...
...revival at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater is of Olympian stature, the finest work that has ever been done there. In voice and bearing, Philip Bosco's Creon is an image of power and arrogance until he receives his terrible rebuke. Martha Henry's Antigone is a female javelin seeking death and wielding it. The myth may say that Prometheus stole fire and gave it to men. Actually, he gave it to women like Antigone and her formidable sisters, Medea and Electra and Helen...
They have been practicing all week to speed up their leg drive and for the first time in many years they have abandoned their characteristic German rigging for the more conventional standard rigging. Ted Nash has also improved the strength of his port side with the addition of Olympian Luther Jones, who while still at Penn, has been stroking the Vesper eight this spring...
Penn's impending dynasty is perhaps the most quickly constructed one in history. Coach George Breen, a former Olympian, attracts the talent, works it to the bone, and convinces would-be quitters that leaving the team is analogous to mutiny...