Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps "Harvard Parent" would prefer that we all perform like professional teachers. If we were paid like professional teachers, perhaps we would. But I do not think that professional teachers are what this university needs, at least not of the type that "Harvard Parent" seems to favor. I always though a university was supposed to be a place where students choose to learn, and learn to choose. A section is the best opportunity for a student to make personal choice significant in his or her own education: it is finally the student's responsibility, not the section leader...
...Harvard men's hockey team can perform an ECAC magic trick tonight and turn a 10-9-2 2 record into a home ice advantage in the quarterfinal of this weekend's conference tournament...
...American, Scott Hamilton, went into battle at Zetra and, feeling that he "wasn't into the ice," decided to retrench, withdrawing two triple jumps from his free-skating program. He still won the gold medal, but it was not with the dominating performance with which he wanted to cap his career. The English ice-dancing couple, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, gave the Winter Olympics its first utterly flawless exhibition: nine perfect marks of 6.0 from nine judges. But Gary Beacom, a Canadian skater, became so enraged over his marks from the judges that he kicked the rinkside barrier...
More warily than their pop music colleagues, serious composers have taken notice. An instrument that can reduce the forces needed to perform Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra from a 100-piece symphony orchestra to a couple of keyboards, electrical outlets and multitrack stereo tape is obviously something to be reckoned with, even if its characteristically metallic tones and dispassionate air will never replace the luster or emotion of a Berlin Philharmonic. But experimenters such as Anderson, Glass, Pierre Boulez and Morton Subotnick are seeking to conjure new sounds in such works as Subotnick's Silver Apples...
Although Merman retired from Broadway in 1970, after playing the title role in Hello, Dolly, she continued to perform in concerts. Last year she underwent surgery for a brain tumor. Her philosophy to the end: "Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice." -By William A. Henry...