Word: spartanism
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...gonna be spectators, then let's get up in the stands where we belong." For Temple and his girls, the path to the 1960 Olympics has been paved with hard work and Spartan self-denial. Himself a Tennessee State sprinter until he hurt his leg, Temple took over as women's track coach after earning his master's degree in 1953 and set out to make it one of the college's top teams. He scoured the South for promising sprinters, labored successfully to increase his allotment of athletic scholarships from two to ten. A mark...
...scarlet robes of high bailiff, or mayor, when Will was four. The boy presumably went to Stratford's King's School -no doubt unwillingly, since the schools of the day consisted of Latin drill, long hours (7 a.m. to 5 p.m., often longer in summer), and Spartan discipline...
...biggest asset is Olympio himself, a big man in a small country. A graduate of the London School of Economics, Olympio has almost eliminated a national deficit equal to one-third of the budget by impartially enforcing taxes, carefully auditing government accounts and setting an example of Spartan frugality. Declining to live in the official Prime Minister's house, he often bicycles to work, carefully turns off the refrigerator before going to bed "because I wouldn't want the electric people to think I'm becoming extravagant...
...that produces the most lasting impressions. Often she will break off an exercise, recalls a former student, "to quote a poet or philosopher if she thinks it will make us leap higher." Although she now lives in a terrace apartment on Manhattan's East Side, Graham maintains the Spartan life her arduous art calls for: no drinking, daily workouts on the barre. And she is as uncompromising as ever in her approach to her audience. "I want to make people feel intensely alive," says she. "I'd rather have them against me than indifferent...
...grinding poverty they worked hard physically, grew up lean and tough on a Spartan diet packed with starches-black bread (using 85% of the wheat grain), white and sweet potatoes, rice-as well as peppers, onions, tomatoes, peanuts, oranges, sesame seeds and abundant raw carrots. A minimum of food was cooked...