Word: stamina
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...likely that Harvard students will get these essentials. The aspiring artist still will not have an easy time. Nor should he. Robert Henri, probably the greatest art teacher America has ever produced, once said: "The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to see it through. You have to make up your mind to be alone in many ways.... alone one gets acquainted with himself, grows up and on, not stopping with the crowd. It costs to do this. If you succeed somewhat you may have to pay for it as well...
There are dozens more. Boston College's Jack Concannon has size (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.) and stamina, delights in the long scoring strike that breaks up ball games. The pros especially like Maryland's Dick Shiner ("a stylist") and Baylor's Don Trull ("a football genius"). Even the Ivy is blooming: up on Manhattan's Morningside Heights, Coach Buff Donelli is touting Junior Archie Roberts as the best quarterback in Columbia's history-better than Gene Rossides or Paul Governali, better even than Sid Luckman...
...except for a lapse of two years, has defended it successfully ever since. Like a football quarterback, Petrosyan scouted his opponent-poring over charts of Botvinnik's games. Like a boxer, he went into training, working out all winter on skis to build up his stamina, later tapering off to something less strenuous; billiards. He moved to a suburban house far from Moscow's hurlyburly, played Tchaikovsky to soothe his nerves...
...cabs without carting a big bust around, like a charwoman, in front of you." The look of the perfect woman? "First, she must be HEALTHY. Then there must be VANITY, do you know? In the best sense of the word. Next, physical, real physical vitality and stamina. After that, the selection of clothes comes rather naturally...
...said Liston. "It was Clay's fight." Did Cassius show him anything? Replied Liston: "He showed me I'll get locked up for murder if I fight him." Some sportswriters agreed. Feeling that they had been fooled, they turned on Cassius. He had no punch, no stamina, no stomach for the likes of Liston. they said. Others spotted nuggets of greatness. Work, they decided, clean living, experience-given these, Clay has an unlimited potential. In his dressing room, Cassius was as sassy as ever. "The referee was the most accurate," he said. "See, I'm as pretty...