Word: strains
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...boom of College applications that has put unprecedented strain on admissions offices has also brought Harvard an unexpected and largely unheralded kind of success. Suddenly the vast majority of undergraduates is not only anxious to learn and intelligent enough to be educated, but also eager to find an articulation between their academic training and their careers...
...seems more concerned about price upcreep than about growth rate. Dwight Eisenhower's sermons on economics got across to the American public-as Walter Heller knows. "There has been a metamorphosis in the Congress and the people," says he with a touch of bitterness in his voice. "The strain of fiscal conservatism has become strong, perhaps because it has been so well nurtured during the last eight years. There is a deep strain of conservative bias built into the congressional system...
Impeccable of Tone. Newcomer Franco Corelli, as Calaf, the prince who stakes his life on winning the cold Turandot, is as handsome as any tenor who ever walked the Met stage, has a big, bronze voice that he can fling forth most of the time without strain; but often he lacks taste and sacrifices lyricism to masculinity, style to strut. Anna Moffo, as Liù, makes the part far more than the usual sweet rag doll: singing with impeccable beauty of tone but also with surprising force, she gives the character backbone, thus rendering plausible the scene in which...
Perhaps the only quality missing was a sense of strain, for their quiet and restrained tone sometimes lacked the introspective torture of Webern's chromatic wanderings. But this complaint is a matter of interpretation; indeed, the brilliance of the performance lay partly in the consistency of their reading...
Pattengill hopes the walkout will not strain relations between the students and the Center. "The speakers made an effort to avoid political overtures," he said...