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Blaik's coaching philosophy is based on two principles; (1) that football is a Spartan game; (2) that hard work is the price of success. And Blaik's current collection of brawny linemen and meteoric backs is carrying, out these precepts admirably. Like all Blaik's teams, this one is well-coached, superbly conditioned, resourceful, fast, and versatile; it has the explosive power which traditionally characterized Army football teams, and the reserve strength to overcome any opponents merely by the process of attrition...
Action in the play revolves around the efforts of Athenian and Spartan woman to end the war between the two cities by not going to bed with their husbands. Naturally the men can't fight a war without sleep...
...driven by pride, rather than narrow acquisitiveness. He had a Spartan sense of duty, discipline and self-control. He was an airman's airman who respected a good mechanic as another man might respect a concert pianist, and who felt that all good pilots were touched with greatness. He liked to see other .men succeed. He had a hellraiser's humor and an odd humbleness which prevented him from posing as a man of destiny. And at his core-steely, stainless and incorruptible-was a gladiator's indomitability...
...literature; during the first 40 years of his life had no hobbies and no friends. Often after a long day's work he slept under the counter of one of his stores, too worn-out to go home. When his mother, the sole inspiration for his Spartan drive toward big money, died in 1889, he buried himself still more deeply in his work, spent his spare time shopping around for new products to stock. He settled...
...asthma victim, Prasad leads a Spartan life. His day begins at 3 a.m. with yoga exercises, the reading of the Ramayana, and the symbolic spinning that characterizes a devout follower of Gandhi...