Word: grips
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Just as he was about to reach the tangle Bareiter lost his grip, spun out into space. There was a grinding wrench as the hoist rope caught around his ankle, flung him head down. Then the rushing wind and the force of his fall carried Bareiter in a hair-raising arc. Three times he was swung out in the air, three times crashed against the stack before he could seize the guy wire, lash himself to it with his belt...
Conductor Barbirolli earned better marks, and easily passed his New York entrance examination with a suave Mozart symphony and a heroic Brahms Fourth, wherein New York Times Critic Olin Downes discovered "virility, grip, lyrical opulence, and on occasion the impact of the bear's paw." Said the New York Herald Tribune's, Lawrence Oilman: "He has disclosed himself as a musician of taste and fire and intensity, electric, vital, sensitive, dynamic, experienced; as an artist who knows his way among the scores he elects to set before us, who has mastered not only his temperament but his trade...
...quickly with The Firebird (1910), Petrouchka (1911) and Le Sacre du Printemps (1913) which caused such a furor at the Paris premiere that the dancers, unable to hear the music, followed the beat of the frenzied Vaslav Nijinsky, shouting to them from the wings while Stravinsky kept a tight grip on the dancer's coat collar. Of Nijinsky, now interned in a Swiss insane asylum, Stravinsky writes: "He spoke little, and, when he did speak, gave the impression of being a very backward youth whose intelligence was very undeveloped for his age. . . . The poor boy knew nothing of music...
...underneath the circus arua, the college has felt the grip of both national and local politics. In a land of 120,000,000, many millions are bound to vote on impression--snap judgment. Other millions, more mature, vote on a combination of prejudice and reason. It cannot be denied that men, trained to think and observe while in the universities, will later turn out to be the thinking voters of the country. Habits of reason and logic formed in college are not lost in later life, but rather tend to influence the owner to careful and restrained opinion in place...
...occurred, though that is quite significant, but that I could have gone into a court of law and sworn that one at least of the two was correctly taken. On the occasion on which we had been in 10% carbon dioxide, when I came out I was retaining my grip of things only with an effort...