Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accomplishment. Motion is not progress. With modern means of transportation, a President needs no great talent to cover great distances and make several stops in depressed areas. A whirlwind tour of depressed communities contributes little to an understanding or solution of their problems. Mr. Johnson would better perform the duties of his office by less talk and more study and reflection...
Despite academic arguments about the infeasibility of modern democracy, citizens still vote for their president and representatives in Congress. And if these elections are to have any meaning in terms of the issue facing the nation, the press must perform the task of educating an uninterested, ill-equipped, distracted electorate...
...bitter, too sharp at first, but who persuades us finally; the Earl of Kent, Yann Weymouth, who acts with welcome restraint amid the general ranting; and Edgar, Richard Backus, who makes a fine fool and a noble Edgar. John Ross as Albany and Thomas Weisbuch as Cornwall both perform well, but they are in demanding company. John Lithgow plays an irregular Gloucester. His blinding scene is one of the play's best moments, but too frequently he swings his long arms and lines to less purpose; he is Marlowe's Edward Ii a little older...
Altogether, Bluebeard's Castle is an early work of a great composer, interesting enough to perform every half century. One would have been more grateful for its performance had it not been the piece de resistance of the program...
...Crimson heavyweight crews face their first real test of the season on the Charies Saturday in the Compton Cup against undefeated Princeton and once-beaten M.I.T. The varsity race, to be run at 6:30 p.m., will give coach Harry Parker his first indication of how his crew will perform over the short 2000 meter course...