Word: strenuousness
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Substitute First Baseman. Even as a boy out of Blooming Grove, Ohio, "Winnie" Harding went in for nothing much more strenuous than tootling his B-flat cornet in the band. After five minutes of shucking corn, he gave it up for good, "saying it was too hard." At Iberia College-now Ohio Central College -his main interests were "debating, writing, and making friends," desultory preparation for the desultory professional floundering that followed...
...poisoning the entire population. With the help of a naive drum majorette (Tuesday Weld), he grandiosely plots to foil the sinister scheme. Their plans, of course, go haywire; so do they. The girl carelessly murders a nightwatchman at the factory, and discovers that killing is not only much less strenuous than high school band practice, it is-for her-much more fun besides. Perkins initially has his doubts that homicide can be just a joyride, but Tuesday leads him on to even more glorious heights: together, they gun down her henna-rinsed virago of a mother (Beverly Garland) and light...
Methodical violin playing, too many moments of imprecise ensemble, and a lack of metrical relaxation, especially in detached quaver figures, severely qualified the final work, Mozart's Symphony No. 29. I think that this was primarily due to simple orchestral fatigue after an especially strenuous program. The Andante, however, was played with considerable feeling. The primary problems of the orchestra in this work and throughout the concert were essentially a lack of stylistic homogeneity within the violin section, insufficient attention to phrasing and a peculiar inability to play a genuine piano. Each of the orchestra's winds performed admirably...
Johnson has not demanded public acceptance by Hanoi to his conditions. But Thieu feels that he needs some sort of open acknowledgment to protect his own political flanks. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker put in seven strenuous sessions, some lasting more than two hours, with Thieu in the course of ten days. At first, Thieu was amenable to the U.S. terms. After meeting with his National Security Council, he flatly refused to consent to N.L.F. representation in Paris. For the moment, that was that. Thieu treads a delicate line. On the one hand are his hard-line rivals, ex-Premier Nguyen...
...recent weeks things have improved. Wall Street Financiers John Loeb and Sidney Weinberg have done some strenuous pleading that has begun to pay off. Humphrey is even going after the loose change. Last week he paid a post-midnight visit to a Manhattan discotheque called Nepantha, where the younger, swingier set had paid $50 a head for the Humphrey cause. As he stood in the psychedelic lights, someone yelled: "You're beautiful, baby!" The event netted...