Word: strength
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been an active participant in the discussions. He has felt free to offer suggestions as they seem to be appropriate." The style and tempo of the summit, in fact, recalled Carter's long pursuit of the presidency: a stubborn, dogged approach to tough issues and an assumption that sheer strength and determination must eventually triumph...
...Jimmy Carter by every account was the one who moved Israel and Egypt, who almost without hope held them together when they threatened to fly apart, who abandoned his Sunday-school pieties for the hard realities of geography and people, yet never lost his basic goodness, perhaps his greatest strength...
While a deadly determined Ali holed up for intensive training, Spinks caroused and skipped workouts, counting on the strength of youth to carry him through. Ali relied instead on conditioning and the canniness of age, all the skills learned in 58 professional fights. He stepped into the New Orleans ring with a look of fierce concentration unseen since his third and final bout with Joe Frazier...
...cleave to, find the form for one's own life comprehensions" is also essential. To have that kind of confidence, a writer needs to be taken seriously and appreciated. Here Olsen is at her best. She painstakingly identifies the societal attitudes and practices that leech away a person's strength and sense of self before he or she ever gets to the stage of being an artist, and again after he or she does, against all odds, become a creator...
...preface to Silences, Tillie Olsen takes a sentence from Andre' Gide as her epigram: "I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance." It is in her discussion of the subtler, unspoken, often unconscious ways society has of grinding human beings down that she comes closest to inspiring hope in the reader. By asking the writer "questions" is this true? Is this all?" Olsen overturns values that too many repressed people unconsciously accept. Here she lists the insights stored up during her period of silence. Each is a revelation in miniature, liberating the reader from widely--held misconceptions, many...