Word: robustness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...solid rational decorums which was Brown's face to the world. Brown's affection did not budge. In the depth of his heart he loved Jago's wilder outbursts, and wished that he could have gone that way himself. Had he sacrificed too much in reaching his own robust harmony? Had he become too dull a dog? For Brown's harmony had not arrived in a minute. People saw that fat contented man, rested on his steady strength, and thought he had never known their conflicts. They were blind. He was utterly tolerant, just because he had known the frets...
...cast, with the exception of Mr. McDowall, is excellent. M'el Dowd, as Morgan Le Fey, is appropriately unusual, and Mr. Goulet makes a handsome and robust Lancelot. Julie Andrews still has that "delicate air," but in this production she is overshadowed by smashing performances from Robert Coote and Mr. Burton, Mr. Coote, who will be remembered as Pickering in My Fair Lady, is a riot as Pellinore, with his blustery Britishness and total incompetence in any given situation. Mr. Burton's dramatic talents are already widely recognized, and he enhances that reputation as a perfect Arthur in Camelot...
When it came to folk songs, the local boys, (supposedly hailing from a citadel of patricianism) far outstripped the visiting firemen. The Harvard folk singing was robust, spirited, and just right for foot-tapping; it was a pity that the audience couldn't join in. The Elis, on the other hand, lacked the spirit that seemed to move their associates. They sang with almost mathematical precision not only in the folk songs, but in their entire repertoire. Mr. Heath was in full control all the time, evoking a wide range of dynamics and a very effective separation and balance...
...drove his young wife to the hospital. It was early morning, but the Teheran streets were already thick with traffic, and the royal couple were quickly noticed. When the car stopped at the Mother's Aid Society Hospital, a crowd gathered outside. Just before noon, Queen Farah Diba, a robust, 22-year-old commoner who still holds the Iranian schoolgirls' record for the high and standing broad jump, gave birth. "Your Majesty, it's a boy!" cried Dr. Jahanshah Saleh, who is both the Queen's obstetrician and Iran's Minister of Health. The Shah raised his hands over...
From this zoo, Goodman selects the Beats as a pilot study in the uses of leisure. "Their rejection of the popular culture, Broadway theatre, status commodities, bespeaks robust mental health." On the other hand, Beat art, says Goodman, is parochial, hopelessly parochial. Discussing Beat words--"make it," "like," "man," "cool" --Goodman finds a paucity of vocabulary and syntax expressive of the Best withdrawal from standard civilization and its learning. "In a Best group it is bad form to assert or deny a preposition as trus or false, probable or improbable, or to want to explore its meaning...