Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confused them with grown-up rules. "Built on curiosity," Moore's method is to let the child "control" his learning. As the child strikes typewriter keys, an instructor names the character printed. (One delighted child hit the asterisk key 75 times to test teacher's stamina.) Sitting beside his "student" in a gadget-filled booth, which has 60-odd switches to pique the child's curiosity, the instructor also projects the chosen letters on a screen. After each half-hour typing session, the child prints the letters on a blackboard, soon works up to complete words...
...character as well as by prowess, Rafer Johnson, 25, comes close indeed to fulfilling the ancient Olympic ideals of the dedicated, all-around athlete. His event is the ten-part (see cuts) decathlon-a whole track meet in miniature-which combines the classic demands of speed, stamina, strength and spirit. At 6 ft. 3 in., 196 Ibs., Johnson seems to have been molded especially for the decathlon. He has the slim, knobby-kneed legs of a sprinter. But above his trim, 35-in. waist, he is built like a weight man, with a torso that mushrooms...
When Del Ferro starred in Otello last week, few in the audience could have guessed that he had appeared only 15 times before on any opera stage. He displayed a richly colored voice of such volume and stamina that he sounded as fresh at the final curtain as he did in the opening scenes. A stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 180 Ibs.), barrel-chested man, he gave the role a sense of dramatic dignity that made the tortured delusions of the final scenes all the more moving. Critics and audience agreed that he promised to be one of the great...
...looked out the window until composure returned. Then she continued: "The people who lose out are the children. Any of the glamour or reward in it comes to the grownups. It's the children who really suffer." But such unguarded moments are rare indeed. Pat Nixon's stamina and courage, her drive and control have made her into one of the U.S.'s most remarkable women-not just a showpiece Second Lady, not merely a part of the best-known team in contemporary politics, but a public figure in her own right...
Nilsson is not only notable for her Isolde; she also sings, apparently with comparable success, Turandot, all the Brunnehildes, and Leonora and Senta (both of which she will do later in the Met season). The roles, all extremely taxing, do not tire Nilsson out. Like the famed stamina of Melchior, who missed only three performances out of the over 500 scheduled for him at the Met, Nilsson's endurance is phenomenal. She thinks nothing of singing three Isoldes in a week, a feat which she plans for later in the season. Any other soprano would request four days separating each...