Word: perform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work of four inventive young Englishmen, two of them Oxford graduates, two from Cambridge, all of whom are no older than twenty-eight. The four are Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore, and they have devised a series of satiric sketches--which they themselves perform--that razz the bejesus out of the Establishment, the Church, coal miners, pansies, the London Transport Board, Ludwig Beethoven, African nationalists, the Bomb, Harold Macmillan, World War II, William Shakespeare, and sundry other subjects of similar import and relevance to modern existence. The tone is radical and very youthful (although not doctrinaire...
...student linen agency, or even a beer mug and banner agency, without central direction and constant contact with suppliers. But the case for HSA control of student entertainers is less convincing. If the HSA is to maintain the confidence of the undergraduate community--which it needs in order to perform its main and vital function--it must not act as if it would like to see all student employment centralized through its office. An organization which exists to serve students should not indulge in expansion only for the sake of expansion, lest success in empire building be confused with success...
Pusey stated that the basic worry facing universities results from the government's concentration of funds in only these areas of inquiry in which "this or that agency [has] a definite and specific mission of its own to perform." Thus while the research investigator "will continue in theory to have complete freedom of choice about what he will study, in fact his freedom of choice will be confined" to areas where governmental agencies have for their own reasons made money available...
...Basically and most important, will the new and growing association with government strengthen or weaken our educational institutions in their ability to perform their essential work? Will future government regulatory policies adequately recognize the true nature of educational institutions? Or will they simply treat our colleges and universities as service agencies in particular situations...
...space program raises its horizons,new and younger men are needed to perform the difficult tasks that deeper space exploration demands. Last week in Houston the National Aeronautics and Space Administration unveiled its second batch of astronauts-nine young spacemen on whose shoulders will ride much of the success of the U.S. race to the moon...