Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...positive thinker." And, of course, he will be using his new technique on the greens, ignoring the fact that smooth putting strokes are like fickle women−here today, gone tomorrow−and the older a man gets, the quicker they go. Gary Player would not let an unpositive thought like that enter his mind...
...some sharp judgments. Brazil's bishops, for example, seemed in no mood to pussyfoot last week. Their own agenda for Puebla focused on "glaring social inequities" and "unjust division of land," and cited the enormous gap between rich and poor as "a social scandal in a continent thought to be Christian." At Puebla, the bishops' concluding statement urged, there must be "prophetic criticism of the socioeconomic and political systems reigning in Latin America." Medellin, obviously, will not be set aside, even on orders from Rome, without a struggle...
...point he set himself a quota of 1,200,000 words a year, 365 days a year (days off had to be made up). He flailed away with two-finger typing until he discovered dictation. Thereafter he kept several secretaries, including three sisters named Walter, frantically busy. He thought of his mysteries as sets of components, so he rigged up a gizmo called a "plot wheel," a device with spokes radiating from the center indicating characters, situations, complications. He spun his wheel until there were points where spokes collided. Presto: another book...
Baryshnikov approached Balanchine carefully. "At first I thought, I will kill myself if he doesn't take me. Slowly I realized that I would never forgive myself if I did not try. I am 30, with a few years left. If he said 'you are not right in some way physically' I would go through a terrible depression, but I could stand...
...ballets." A similar claim could be made for many Balanchine works, and some created by his less active co-choreographer, Jerome Robbins. So, if nothing else, Misha will need stamina, and having performed Balanchine's Theme and Variations, he knows it: "The first time I danced it I thought my legs would drop...