Word: sustainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essential challenge of performance is to master the sizeable technical problems and to sustain an ardorous abandon as well. Aside from a little fakery in the strings, and a few errors in prominent solo passages, the HRO came significantly close. Yannatos paced the piece convincingly and generally got all the contrasts he was looking for. The violins were most exuberant, accenting the opening theme just right, and the woodwinds--especially the flutes and those juicy clarinets--phrased things well in the many interchanges. It is too bad, then, that several instruments failed at critical moments: the tranquille violin solo going...
Against Princeton, Harvard's offense managed to sustain several drives entirely on the ground, even though the Tigets knew exactly what was coming. The Crimson starting backfield of John McCluskey, Wally Grant, Bobby Leo, and Tom Choquette has recovered from early-in-the-week ailments and should be going at full strength today...
Harvard's minimal j.v. squad, depleted by the varsity's Cornell trip, was often able to move freely, but not consistently enough to sustain long drives...
...Very Rich Woman has ague in its funny bones. Actress-Playwright Ruth Gordon has tried to create a drawing-room comedy about old age-and the chief reason that the play cannot sustain itself is that old age is no joke...
...absorb military escalation without much of a wrench. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, who during the Korean war was director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, points out: "When Korean fighting broke out, we had a defense budget of $10 billion. And there was no force in being to sustain large-scale fighting. By contrast, the defense budget for the past ten years has totaled more than $400 billion, and we have a much larger economic base...