Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...itself propelled the unmanned spacecraft to an altitude of more than 13,000 miles. On Apollo 7, its first manned flight, it was started eight times. Thus, when Borman, Lovell and Anders embarked on their mission, they had a pretty good idea that their little engine could perform its tasks flawlessly...
Free and Faithful. Alexis Sigismund Weissenberg realizes now that his problem was not the critics who switched from cooing to carping. Nor was it the managers who booked him into that deadly round of whistle-stop tours called Community Concerts. His problem was the quandary of every young performer: "He must perform early for an audience to develop his personality. On the other hand, the inner gifts need development privately. If these are developed in front of the public, many things are exaggerated, experimental, uncertain...
...cluttered with instruments, the stages on which they appeared had the aura of gypsy encampments. That aura was heightened by an occasional waft of incense and by the presence of two girls known as Licorice and Rose (real names: Caroline McKechnie and Rose Simpson), who live, travel and perform with the band. Resplendent in beads, braid, silks and velvet, Robin and Mike wandered about, sipped tea, and spent interminable intervals tuning up. But once they started singing, they wove a trance...
Although people acquire patterns of social behavior from television, they do not necessarily perform this behavior in their everyday interactions. The casual linkages of performance are more complex because other factors enter in as determinants. This same issue applies, of course, to the influence of television on consumer behavior. For example, a well-endowed blonde begs 50 million viewers to join the Dodge rebellion. Obviously 50 million people do not jump up and purchase Dodge automobiles. The televised influence increases the probability that Dodge cars will be purchased, but one would have to consider many other factors in predicting...
...phenomena, a new thing on the American scene. Why? That's our question. Our slogan is Why? You know as long as we can make up a story about it that's exciting, mystical, magical, you have to accuse us of going to Chicago to perform magic...