Word: prowesses
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...Christian Brando, in T. S. Eliot's words, "under the bam, under the boo, under the bamboo tree." Then one day a supple vahine named Tarita broke into spontaneous dance before Brando and Director Reed, swayed sensually to the rhythm of sharkskin drums, and extolled Brando's prowess as a godlike lover and drinker of awa, a local fermentation. Brando and Reed conferred. Soon the coconut radios of Tahiti were spreading the message that Tarita had become Hollywood's newest star...
...full failure of our society can be seen in your article on Lerner and Loewe. What standards have we set that men who have made their mark are forced or compelled as peasant boys to boast, to proclaim their sexual prowess? Have we reached a state where stud ability has become the endorsement of a successful career...
...43rd National Automobile Show, was a philosophic essay on the nature of U.S. capitalism. His major points: wealthy U.S. allies must do more to help underdeveloped nations, particularly through the United Nations; underdeveloped countries should not forget that the outstanding fact of U.S. capitalism is not its material prowess but its unique sense of social responsibility...
...character as well as by prowess, Rafer Johnson, 25, comes close indeed to fulfilling the ancient Olympic ideals of the dedicated, all-around athlete. His event is the ten-part (see cuts) decathlon-a whole track meet in miniature-which combines the classic demands of speed, stamina, strength and spirit. At 6 ft. 3 in., 196 Ibs., Johnson seems to have been molded especially for the decathlon. He has the slim, knobby-kneed legs of a sprinter. But above his trim, 35-in. waist, he is built like a weight man, with a torso that mushrooms...
...been 146 years since Swedish troops last went into battle in the nearly bloodless 1814 war with Norway. A derisive jingle commemorates their prowess: "Ten thousand Swedes marched through the weeds, to kill one poor Norwegian...