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Ridd says his good health and sound mind at 65 are due to "reaching the utmost power of concentration." He claims that any student can reach the same level, providing he is willing to concentrate fully and open his mind to the revelations (and peace) that will inevitably follow. The Chief emphasizes that he can only show the student the basic techniques of the art, while final achievement rests solely on the individual...
...firmly on both sides of the question. "I must make it plain," he announced, "that I realize that neither I nor any other military man has the authority to order dependents to return to the U.S. I have the right however ... to expect that [marines] will loyally do their utmost to carry out my announced policy...
Beer believes that Stevenson represents the Democratic view of the Presidency. "The Democratic President realizes that he must not only point out the major problems, but he must do his utmost to get the proper solution...
Whatever one thinks of Vellucci's proposals, the Councillor has definitely become a force to reckon with in the Cambridge community. Whenever Harvard or M.I.T. plans a project which requires any sort of delicate negotiating, the utmost care is taken to shield proceedings from the eye of the Councillor. As one M.I.T. spokesman said recently, "You just can't imagine what a cramp he can put in things when he starts poking around...
...done, with more dramatic flair than sensuous feeling, his canvases strike right through the retina to the mind. Yet whether his pictures are sufficiently rich in color, firm in drawing and subtle in composition to live beyond the grave is another question. Masterpieces generally are constructed either with the utmost care and polish or else with what Transcendentalist Emerson himself called "nerve and dagger." Wight is too self-conscious to be really bold, too rushed to polish much...