Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Erik Bruhn, who brings to the secondary role of the Saracen his magisterial elegance of line, as well as a Tartar-like ferocity surprising in a dancer noted for ethereal courtliness. Hampered by an ankle injury, Nureyev as Jean de Brienne performed his four demanding solo variations with visible strain; the unmistakable élan and animal dynamism were there, but not the usual accuracy. Still, his work with Cynthia Gregory was a model of supportive adoration...
Crichton, venturing outside sci-fi (The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man), again proves a skillful researcher and popularizer. Drawing from such scholars as Henry Mayhew, a bygone chronicler of the criminal subculture, he wittily lances the pomposities of 19th century England, when material and moral progress seemed inseparable...
...girl slit her wrist with the top of a spaghetti can-well, the other revelers could not pause too long over the misfortune lest they lose their grip and go under too. Wilson himself almost did. In 1929 he suffered a nervous breakdown, probably from the cumulative strain of deadlines and tangled romances. While in the sanitorium he became addicted briefly to the drug paraldehyde...
...state and community planners hope to devise strategies for balanced tourist growth. Rather than employ scattershot advertising, such as Maine billboards with the inane slogan LOVER COME BACK TO ME, for example, many states could emphasize such qualities as clean air and uncrowded roads. They could also take the strain off overcrowded, ecologically fragile coastal resources by developing and promoting relatively unspoiled inland areas. "Tourism has been profitable to Maine," the Little study concludes. "But if it means public resentment and decline in the quality of life, the price is too high...
...force is in their more casual interests about who gets into the College from the Philadelphia area. Almost all of the Harvard Club's officers were gleeful to see that Harvard this year admitted 23 students from the area, an increase of six over the previous year. A common strain of complaints issued by those involved with the Philadelphia end of admissions is that the metropolitan area should not be lumped in a region including the prolific Long Island school district, because the grouping heightens the competition for places to its fiercest level in the nation. "But last year...