Word: self-control
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...training, Charlotte says that the starts of races are often scenes of mass confusion. Much depends on a cool-headed coxswain, according to Charlotte, because of the tension that mounts up while waiting for the other boats to line up for a floating start. In addition, much self-control is required during the race to avoid increasing the stroke rate individually, instead of applying each stroke harder...
Crew appeals to Charlotte because she believes it is a satisfying way to direct herself. She enjoys feeling that she is working as hard as she can on something worthwhile, learning self-control and discipline. She finds the group effort, the putting aside of personal rivalry, is a valuable experience...
...energies for a piddling crowd. But he sparked up by the time he hit Mass Ave the next day. He hustled his six foot four inch frame with ramrod posture through Cambridge sidewalks which could barely hold the both of us, and only for an instant lost his self-control--breaking into a half-stumble and a nervous twitch when he dropped his coat at Schoenhof's. He whisked through the Crimson building for a 30-second stop, and then went past to the Charles...
Psychic, as well as physical, self-control was essential. For Pacino, it appears, is a man haunted every now and then by insecurity, something no Corleone would ever feel--or if he did, would certainly never admit. But Pacino admits; in fact, he almost seems to relish confessing: "The testing for the film was unbelievable: I had to go back three times. I went back the first time, and I knew I wasn't wanted. Even when I started, I felt I wasn't really wanted, and that's a difficult thing to work through." This, in spite...
Later comes a hair-curling (and historically inaccurate) episode in which, with spitting snarls, Maria denounces Elizabeth to her face ("obscene, unworthy prostitute . . . vile bastard"), and thereby seals her doom. At the end, Sills is the epitome of resolute self-control, pulling her disparate and volatile selves together, laying her head bravely on the block and rapping it three times to cue the executioner, as, by some accounts, Maria did. Going to one's death onstage is nothing new for any opera singer. But Sills somehow always manages to put new life into it. -William Bender