Word: perform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course is open to college graduates, both men and women, and gives students a practical view of publishing, from editing to selling, from magazine to text books. Students learn by doing, and perform the actual publishing functions which carry as idea or an assignment to the reading public via the marketplace...
...Tower of Babel had nothing on the modern cocktail party, whose disparate clatter and chatter has long fascinated linguists, novelists, sociologists and sound engineers-as well as the imbibers. Unconsciously, every cocktail-partygoer performs an unusual feat as he sips his gin amid the din: while carrying on his own dazzling conversation, he is able simultaneously to monitor the surrounding babble for such important items as the sound of his own name or a verbal pass at a lady friend. How does the human organism perform these intellectual gymnastics? Fascinated by what they call "the cocktail-party problem," two British...
...with a Mimeograph machine and advertising." As Meehan and Hamilton see it. the art of politics is based on what they call "service"'-doing favors for people so as to build up a fund of obligation and gratitude that will be useful on election day. Says Hamilton: "We perform every conceivable kind of service.'5 Adds Meehan: "Everything from fixing a traffic ticket to getting a son out of the Army." The G.O.P.'s failure to make a dent in the Democratic control of Philadelphia during the past eleven years might suggest to Meehan and Hamilton that...
...perform its duty--which is to govern--the mind must have been trained in such a way that nothing can escape its control: this implies enable to catch sound, isolated as as superimposed or in linear succession, to feel rhythm (I mean rhythm and not only bar division; this in its is a subject which would require less comments), and eventually make the complex structure of the work as a whole perceptible...
...order to obey the commands the mind, the fingers, the hands, the arms must have achieved such a degree of independence and skill, a variety of touch, of such a delicasy a speed and strength, that they all at once perform everything which is required...