Word: nervelessness
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Glenda Jackson is a buzz saw of an actress and Rose is a toothpick of a play. This sense of imbalance sets the tone of the evening. Jackson possesses a feral magnetism; the play is nerveless, somnolent, inert. She is direct; the play is diffuse. In vocal inflection and delivery, she is a wicked font of wit and irony; the play is parched for either...
...score after each round was a new tournament record, and he needed every stroke to stave off the direct challenge of his surprising playing partner, Japan's Isao Aoki. Nicklaus, who admitted afterward that he too had come to doubt his ability, birdied the final two holes, nerveless as of old. His winning score of 272 (to Aoki's 274) broke by three strokes the U.S. Open record he had shared with Lee Trevino*. While a crowd of 25,000 chanted his name, Nicklaus acknowledged: "This is the best of them all." Trevino himself paid moving tribute...
PODHORETZ DROPS NAMES, and not always affectionately. He hates the politically nerveless and the overly cynical, but lands heaviest on the intellectual hypocrites, attacking, for example, Lillian Hellman, whose book Scoundrel Time defended Stalin and his crimes, while disgracefully comparing the plight of Eastern European dissidents to the bogus martyrdom of those who, under congressional questioning, evasively pleaded the fifth...
...infusions of prize money-purses have doubled since 1975 to $3.4 million this year-tend to make top women amateur golfers into pros earlier than their male counterparts. The rising stars have done their growing up on the professional circuit and in the process have honed themselves into nerveless competitors while still in their teens and early 20s. The result is an aggressive, charging style of play that threatens to leave some of the tour's conservative veterans by the wayside. Says one longtime observer: "When I watched the L.P.G.A. ten years ago, it seemed that almost everyone played...
Cuts are the feared actions of coaches that bring nerves to the most nerveless athletes. They cause sleepless nights, added worries and psychological strain. They test a player's ability to perform under pressure, the pressure of having to make a team.all athletes know the struggles against being cut. One such athlete is Scott Malkim, an Eliot House sophomore, who has been living on the edge of the blade, avoiding the fall soccer cut by a hair. His thoughts and emotions provide an example of the tension evoked in the battle to make a team. His words speak for many...