There, they encounter another couple, of sorts — Lavinia (Arianna Nastro), a frail young student, and her brother, Goffredo (Ludovico Succio), a teen-age architect-in-training to whom she's overly attached.
From nervous students to frail war veterans, state television anchors to professional sportspeople, one by one they climbed on to the stage to unleash breathless eulogies in honour of their leader.
Too frail for military service, art student Steve Rogers volunteered for an experiment to create an army of super-soldiers.
Medical school introduces students to the elderly primarily as frail, acutely ill patients in hospitals.
It is a major site for teaching resident physicians and medical students about the care of the frail elderly.
Minutes passed, then hours, and finally the students left, bewildered by the tall, frail man with an eye patch and wild, white hair.
Mr. Schuller, who founded this festival in 1964, is 86, and he looked thin and frail when he led the center's superb student ensemble in a program of Ives chamber music on Saturday evening.
Students packed into Geneen Auditorium to see the tall and frail 90-year-old man, who was credited for engineering the "Japanese economic miracle" with his theories on statistical process control.
A newly minted Yale student-athlete when he was seized, he was a frail 42-year-old upon his liberation.
Toward the end of the class, this big, frail man, who was confined to a high director's chair, said to the students, "Do you think there is such a thing as taste memory?" This set me thinking.
