Word: strength
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students should be proud of themselves for exhibiting the highest form of brotherhood and sisterhood with southern Africans during the demonstrations and marches in the past week. Black people there will surely find out about the actions here, one way or another, and the knowledge will give them renewed strength to continue their stuggle...
Finally, Harvard students should recognize their strength on this issue. More than half of all undergraduates marched together Thursday night, united in their opposition to a decision they find repugnant and inhumane. In the future, however, the organization spearheading the movement against Harvard's South African investments should be closer in concept to a single body. For all the protests of the past months to have full impact, the movement must continue to grow, and that calls for unswerving attention to a single goal: Harvard and U.S. dollars out of South Africa...
...moving into the class of the finest ballerinas: New York City Ballet's Suzanne Farrell and Patricia McBride, A.B.T.'s Natalia Makarova and Cynthia Gregory; and Gelsey is six years younger than the youngest of these. Her stage presence fuses contraries?strength and limpidity, control and abandon, energy and ease. "It's difficult to talk about Gelsey," says Choreographer Antony Tudor, "because she is so right." Many try nonetheless. Rudolf Nureyev commends her: "She has that beautiful fluidity in her movements and an incredible strength for such a small girl." Mikhail Baryshnikov notes that "she advances from performance to performance...
...tripped her. Analysis helped; born old, Gelsey decided that it was time to grow up. "I had to want to get well," she says. "I had to have the desire to dance again and work." Gradually it came. She picked up with A.B.T., at first not dancing at full strength. Those who knew what she had been through crossed their fingers, held their breath and marveled. Says Williams: "That she survived all that is remarkable." Soon the "steel-like legs" were as pert as when Villella first saw them. Gelsey was pleased by her recovery but not surprised...
Higginson decided to reinstate veteran senior Kevin Cunningham at stroke while sliding in towheaded junior Jim Russell at the pivotal seven seat. "Jim's a smooth oarsman whose style complements the strength in our boat," Cordeiro said...