Word: spartanism
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...spartan rooms at Harvard's Adams House, the poet can be persuaded to summon up his youth in County Derry, outside Belfast. "I was one of eight surviving children," he recalls. One of his earliest poems, "MidTerm Break," records the funeral of his young brother, struck by a car and buried in "a four foot box, a foot for every year." Young Seamus might have followed his father into the fields, had he not been introduced as a teen-ager to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the English Roman Catholic convert who became a priest and master poet...
...males cram into flag-bedecked train stations across the Soviet Union as they set off to begin mandatory military service. Except for those who have been selected for three-year stints in the navy and border guard, the new draftees will begin two years of rigorous training, living in spartan barracks and eating such fare as greasy soup, cabbage, potatoes and salted fish. In the event of war, the military can draft 5 million more men from active reserve and an additional 40 million who are obliged to answer the call until...
Hamilton does not require any such reminder. At a recent practice session, he inspected his landing track after each jump, intent for 1 Yz hrs. that every one of them be absolutely fine and clean. For all his spartan talk about pure athletics, Hamilton in action is more than just physically powerful. With his miniature, muscular body (5 ft. 3 in., 115 Ibs.) wrapped in a plain, spangle-free uniform, there is something of the playful otter about him. All good skaters make it look easy, but Hamilton's skating looks inevitable, as if he cannot help but spin...
...current economic recovery, which has boosted revenues through increased income and retail sales, deserves considerable credit for the rosier outlook. Just as important, however, has been a spartan regimen of tax hikes and belt-tightening. Some 38 states imposed new levies or extended temporary tax hikes during 1982 and early 1983, measures that are expected to raise some $10 billion for fiscal 1984. Fully three-quarters of the states slashed spending below the levels they had originally appropriated during the past two years. The result of these austerity measures, says David Levine, an economist with the Bureau of Economic Analysis...
...conglomerate that includes profitable hotel, restaurant and real estate operations. In 1978. TWA set up Trans World Corp. (1982 revenues: $5.1 billion) as a holding company for the airline and other subsidiaries, which now include Hilton International (90 hotels overseas plus three Vista International hotels in the U.S.), Spartan Food Systems (423 restaurants in Quincy's Family Steak House and Hardee's chains). Canteen (one of the nation's largest vending and direct-food-service businesses) and Century 21 Real Estate (a nationwide chain with 6,400 offices). Last week Trans World Corp. decided that the airline...