Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...learned much of his craft at the Last Chance, and the take from the gate paid part of his tuition. Playing at the club gave him an opportunity to develop an easy stage rapport. "I consider working with audiences an education," he said. "You have to learn the ability to adapt yourself to different types of people." But the nightclub environment became stifling. "I was becoming Brock Walsh the live jukebox. All people wanted to hear was Elton John. That was the least dangerous stuff to do, if you didn't want to offend anybody...
Walsh criticizes "artists" who are not active in promoting their albums: "If the record company provides the promotion, they expect you to sing--push the product. "He hopes that he won't develop a stage character that is "too far from my own personality...
...program is in a state of transition," Hall explained. The Buildings and Grounds Department is trying to develop a distribution system which will be able to handle large numbers of requests, he said...
Prior to the development during the past century of huge concentrations of urban population, even the failure of the nation state might not have been completely catastrophic. But today, if we fail to develop a viable world community, the collapse of civilization may be total...
...expecting too much of effective general education that it develop within students a permanent defense against gullibility?" he asks. "It is astonishing to discover how superstitious students are, how vulnerable to demagogic appeal, to empty show and eloquence...