Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Naked Nerves. Why does this appeal so powerfully to modern audiences? U.S. Critic Jack Diether points to the "existentialist" strain in Mahler: "He is the only composer who looked into our whole civilization, who questioned the whole basis of our existence." Says Rafael Kubelik, who conducted Mahler's Eighth at Vienna last week: "He's a sufferer who forces man to look into a mirror. He exposes naked nerves." The Angst, as well as the questing spirit of Mahler's music, no doubt explains its special meaning for today's college-age youth, who are among...
...seemed impervious to the battering and strain of more than seven months alone at sea, but the elements had obviously taken their toll. Less than a week after his triumphant arrival home, Britain's Circumnavigator Sir Francis Chichester, 65, was hurried to Plymouth's Royal Naval Hospital with a hemorrhage of an unsuspected duodenal ulcer. With Sir Francis berthed for as long as a month, this week's two superceremonies-his formal knighting by the Queen with Sir Francis Drake's sword, and his pandemonious reception by the City of London-have been postponed until...
...kind of tedious scene that would strain the nerves of the most seasoned actors. But Ben, star of the forthcoming CBS-TV series, Gentle Ben, fended off the attack of a Bengal tiger with almost playful aplomb, breezed through the retakes without missing a cue. Congratulated by Producer George Sherman, Ben merely grunted and slurped down a can of sardines-just as any 7ft.-long, 650-lb. black bear would do after a hard day on the set. Says Sherman: "You look at the script and say 'a bear can't do those things...
...conventional way of seeing this trend is as a housing problem. There is little doubt that Cambridge has become a magnet for large numbers of students, young single workers, and young professionals. They are placing a tremendous strain on the local housing supply. They have flooded areas to the north and east of Harvard Square, and they are turning up in increasing numbers around Central Square and even in East and North Cambridge. In the process, many buildings in the City have been converted and rehabilitated, rents have gone up, and -- according to the commonly-accepted theory -- Cambridge residents have...
Even in those productive days Lowell suffered a terrible physical strain. "He was struggling with two dynamos," says a friend, "one leading him to some kind of creative work, the other tearing him apart." The origin of what Lowell himself called his "break downs" is attributed by some friends to the "incredible tensions" that existed between Lowell's parents. Says one: "I don't see how he survived that family. He has written about it, but the reality is worse than he has written...