Word: perform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of the team. Discouraging, on the whole. Inspections, with no effort at teaching. Emphasis on outward signs of cleanliness--neat houses, swept courtyards. Generally they ignore the things I'm interested in: source of water, how water is treated, whether latrines are used. The villagers are expected to perform a certain superficial ritual of cleanliness without ever understanding...
...political philosophy held with Lincoln that government should do for the people only those necessary things that the people could not do for themselves. That notion now seems hopelessly quaint. Today's generations take it for granted that the U.S. Government is simply bursting with good deeds to perform for the individual, whether strictly necessary or not. But no man of mortal mind can know of everything that Washington is ready and willing...
Coach John Yovicsin said yesterday that he wants to see how Robinson will perform in a starting role. The junior quarter miler was sent in late in the game against Tufts and dashed 89 yards for a touchdown that was called back by a holding penalty...
...professor witholds value judgments and lets the students perform, but may fire questions to make people sharpen their views. "Therefore, Mr. Smith?... So what do you propose to do about it? Are you going to hire more men? If so, how many and at what salary?..." Analysis is rigorous. It should consider as many problem areas as possible in each case; what is more, it should be followed up with proposals for concrete action...
...which LSD is administered to infant once a week. LSD works, according to Leary, by suspending the old imprints temporarily, and leaves the individual with a slightly altered weltanschauung. A child raised in such a way would be able to watch ten television programs simultaneously, as well as to perform more useful feats such as empathizing with all sorts of people. "Most kids in our society grow up without being sensitized to more than one way of organizing experience," he says. All the anomalous experiences are filtered out of their lives by anxious parents and precious schools...