Word: perform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compiled until now, such fascinating statistics festoon The American Jury (Little, Brown; $15), a monumental new study by University of Chicago Law Professors Harry Kalven Jr. and Hans Zeisel. Far from content with statistics, the authors have also tackled a crucial question: how well or badly does the jury perform...
...poor fellah's daughter who started out posing as a boy-because proper Arab girls did not then perform in public-Um Kalthoum as a child often sang Koranic songs for five or ten hours at a stretch. Her pay: 1$ per performance. At 15, she bought her first dress, later switched from religious to romantic songs, and instantly became a Pan-Arabic institution. King Farouk awarded her Egypt's highest civilian decoration, and she reciprocated by singing political songs, first, Farouk, May You Live Forever and later, for Nasser, Gamal and the Nile Are Creators...
They began to listen again in 1964, when he returned to Manhattan to perform three solo concerts. The critics were ecstatic. What followed was 14 new albums, several sizzling performances on the jazz-festival circuit, and two extended tours of Europe, where Fatha is one of the most popular of all popular musicians. Viewing himself as an "evangelizing musician," Hines says: "People have been walking by me for a long time. Now it's my turn to reach the young people and teach them the old ways, the right ways, the good-time ways...
...fact, the hospital had a rather strong case. For, like all negligence plaintiffs, the Deutsches had the difficult job of proving four elusive claims: 1) that the defendant owed the plaintiff a duty of reasonable care; 2) that the defendant failed to perform that duty in the manner of "a reasonably prudent person" who would have foreseen and avoided the consequences; 3) that the defendant's negligence actually as well as legally caused the plaintiff's injury; 4) that the plaintiff suffered real loss or "damage" to be compensated by the defendant...
...more than 20 people here this summer," Mayer said, "and nearly all of them have jobs--which means they are not too anxious to rehearse all afternoon and perform at night...