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Word: perform (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local citizens about the roads and found a real desire to get something done. Several informal meetings were held to discuss the problem, and it was decided to see what a group of residents could do working in conjunction with the city government. The people were willing to perform necessary labor if the government would supply the equipment needed...

Author: By William Krohley, | Title: Community Development: Its Name May Be Mud | 3/3/1966 | See Source »

Harvard coach Edo Marion will set one of his carefully nurtured fencing protogees used against him. Sophomore Mike Marion, son of the Crimson coach, can perform in either foil or sabre for the Big Red. Cornell coach Raoul Sudre is further blessed with sophomore Don Sieja, son of Princeton coach Mike Sieja, who is accomplished in foil and epee. Another outstanding sophomore. Steve Botwinick, will fence foil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Fencers To Duel Cornell | 2/26/1966 | See Source »

...sold more record albums (more than 5,000,000), grossed more money and attracted a more widely popular following than any other classical instrumentalist in history. At a time when artists 25 years his junior are gearing down for retirement, he is shifting into overdrive. This season he will perform virtually every third day in concert halls from Ithaca to Istanbul. The real wonder is not that he is still going so strong, but that he is playing better than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: The Undeniable Romantic | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

Back to Mozart. As a stripling, Rubinstein often lived at the mercy of impresarios who wanted him to perform only the crowd pleasers?Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff. "They never listened to me," he growls, "just to the box office." Now, like an aging Romeo, he has "come back to Mozart on my knees." That alone is quite an achievement. "You remember what Schnabel said about Mozart sonatas?" recalls Rubinstein. " 'Too easy for children, too difficult for artists.' " So it is: Mozart demands a fidelity to rhythm that few performers can ever master. It is characteristic of Rubinstein's magic that even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: The Undeniable Romantic | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

STANDING somewhere between Nostradamus and a Wall Street broker, the President of the U.S. each year draws up a federal budget-essentially a forecast of events as they are expected to occur as much as 18 months hence. The law requires him to perform this task, but there is no law that says he has to stick to his budget. This extraordinary leverage over the public purse has been gradually wrested from Congress, which over the years has ceded its once jealously held fiscal powers to the White House. Today, the President does not consider the budget just a report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: READING THE BUDGET FOR FUN & PROFIT | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

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