Word: stamina
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...Berne, Australia to South Africa, to give 50 to 60 concerts and recitals a year. From the front door, she can also ski directly to the lift lines of the Gstaad ski area. This is more important than it might seem. A flutist must have the wind and physical stamina of a well-conditioned athlete...
...Besides stamina, the hallmark of the Shaffer style is a big, crisply colored tone that can penetrate the thickest orchestral texture. Her Kincaid platinum instrument not only sounds like a veritable Heldenflöte; it actually is one. It weighs 20 oz., compared with 15 oz. for the average silver model. Shaffer psychs herself into certain musical moods, thinking of bright white lights for staccato passages, for instance, or of the setting sun when she has to change from fortissimo to pianissimo. "As the sun drops lower," she explains, "the heat may lessen but the colors become more intense. That...
...Tigers were also physically superior to Harvard, both in stamina and aggressiveness...
Radcliffe coach Puppy O'Connor said that the team's biggest problem today would be stamina. The girls, who are used to playing 20 to 25 minutes periods, will be playing 30 minute halves in the game against Princeton. "If they can keep the momentum going they'll do fine," she said...
Though campaign funds come from everywhere, Washington is the central point of accounting-or non-accounting. There the sensitive, secretive nature of political financing in this election year puts a strain on journalistic patience, stamina-and eyes. "You feel like a dentist touching a raw nerve," says Correspondent Hays Gorey. "One Republican source and friend, hearing the proposed topic for an interview, said, Tm going to hang up now.' I promised not to mention the Watergate, and he gave me two minutes." Corey's colleague, Simmons Fentress, found the McGovern people more willing to talk about the delicate...