Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said of him: "One needs to see, to hear-particularly to hear his laugh, his general noisiness-to realize what an obstreperous person this man is, to have one's arm numbed by his viselike grip just above one's elbow, to feel the intensity of his nervous energy. Above all, one needs years of experience to know the depth of his concern about people...
...hairdos and costume changes; the two of them have worked together so long that they can plan a whole film in 45 minutes. Then she reads over her lines to get the drift of things and puts her script aside until the shooting starts. The wait invariably makes her nervous. "When I was young," she says, "I was always sure of everything I did. I was sure the audience would love me, and I had to be dragged away from a stage. Now I know more, and sometimes I have awful periods of stage fright...
...Loeb began to make people nervous before it was completed. During the '50s Harvard drama had flourished in Aggasiz and the House dining halls. Producing organizations abounded--and were constantly in debt. The Loeb, it was feared, with its moveable stage, its novel winch system, its fancy lighting board, would destroy the esprit and the air of crisis that had given so many shoestring productions their vitality...
Coming just when France's thrusts had made money markets nervous, the poor figures sent the pound into a tumble. It dropped 3/16 of 1? to $2.79 11/32, the lowest this month, and the Bank of England had to defend it by buying sterling on the open market. The situation was complicated by the Labor government's declaration that it will establish a board with the power to review and make recommendations on almost all prices, wages and labor agreements...
...chapter on the comparative physiology of the central nervous system does require a minor addendum. On page 73, Loeb says that worms do not posses associative memory, that is, the capacity for learning. This was consistent with what was known when Loeb wrote the chapter in 1899. Months after he revised it in 1912, Robert Yerkes reported in the Journal of Animal Behavior an experiment that became famous: Yerkes trained a single earthworm over a period of months to learn a simple maze. Fleming's note at the end of the chapter mentions neither this nor more recent experiments...