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...project well. Right now, the Foundation is described by administrators as a "nothing-to-lose" proposition. If that label persists, the Foundation could soon become a "nothing-to-gain" proposition. It would benefit the entire community if the Foundation--and all efforts at enhanced racial harmony here--were to thrive...
Still, the crisis-generated "highs" of the substitute controllers will surely start to fade. The FAA's Moss contends that controllers "perform best under stress -they thrive on it." He cites studies showing that collisions in the air occur mainly when traffic is relatively light and when "the stress is off air controllers, and they are not paying attention." Some of the working controllers, who were still putting in 60-hour weeks (they are scheduled to be cut back to 48 hours this week) are worried about remaining alert as the months go by. "I have to ask myself...
...celebration inevitably produced the sorts of glitches on which N.Y.C.B. fans seem to thrive. There was one real disappointment: in the midst of the first performance of Mozartiana, Balanchine's major effort, Suzanne Farrell sprained her foot; subsequent performances of a beautiful and complex ballet had to be canceled. When Jacques d'Amboise saw his new Concert Fantasy performed for the first time before a full theater, he promptly canceled the last half of it; that led to a certain bemusement among those trying to follow the printed program, which remained unchanged on later evenings. Jerome Robbins...
...Stratton's recent discovery of hundreds of memoirs from the women who settled the western wilderness against great odds in the mid-19th century has unveiled a female frontier population which seemed to strengthen and thrive and gain color from the prairie sun and wind. These women, who trailed west after their husbands, unwillingly at first, soon burst out in lively appreciation of and identification with the frontier landscape. Carrie Stearns Smith, one pioneer woman, recollects the liberating power of the prairie as it accosted her constricted New England sensibility...
...break the original ties that bound this group together. Donny is firmly segregated elsewhere, while Emily and Raymond turn out to be misfits and loners; she is gawky and plays basketball, while he collects stamps and mopes around in rayon shirts and reindeer sweater vests. Only Sally and Jed thrive in their environment and become small-bore celebrities: the pretty, peppy cheerleader and the swaggering varsity tackle...