Word: spartanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...