Word: stamina
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...snip their puppet strings and try to become the Paul Taylors of the '90s. They had better read this book, not only for a preview of the pitfalls ahead, but also for an insight into the nonartistic qualities that just might come in handy: guts, humor and, above all, stamina...
...fact that she is a woman has not disadvantaged her in the slightest, Butcher says. "Women are equally good in their stamina, and in the training of animals. You don't have to be the physically strongest or physically fastest, so you do very well," she says...
When the President showed last week that he still has the physical stamina to stand up, then, questions of his ability to lead this country dissipated. Even though the president again admitted his utter lack of knowledge about the goings on that resulted in one of the worst foreign policy disasters and breaches of the Constitution in recent memory, journalists told the American people that President Reagan was "presidential." He even managed to crack a one-liner...
...past four months Ronald Reagan has not had the physical stamina, the emotional intensity or the mental acuity to be President of the U.S. The three qualities are inseparable in leadership. The decline of one weighs the others down, finally diminishing the man. Whether Reagan's reduced state was caused by natural aging, impaired health, the crushing reverses in politics and state affairs, or all of the above will probably never be sorted out. Nor is it all that important. But what is important is his energy level in mind, body and soul in these next few weeks...
Even if he can think of little in U.S. history without being reminded of the New Deal, Schlesinger is not doctrinaire. Indeed, these essays prove that to be a New Deal liberal for four decades requires not only stamina but lots of irony -- and plenty of fast footwork. He remains enduringly hopeful, not least of all about the revival of liberalism, which, according to his schedule, is due to cycle back in favor around 1990. But he also finds it part of his nature to question everything, including his hopes. In his best essay, Schlesinger writes of the "precariousness...