Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something other than democracy. To relieve a fellow of national service merely because he possesses a Ph.D. (or may, or could) or because he doesn't really want to serve does him and his country a severe disservice. He should be precisely the person called upon to perform the meanest of services, for he is supposedly the most resourceful...
...Glass Bottom Boat uses space-age wizardry and spy fiction to fizz up the formula for a Doris Day sex comedy. As usual, the man cast opposite her has to perform somewhat like the catcher in a flashy female trapeze act, and Rod Taylor doughtily goes through the motions of Doris-appreciation without losing his grip. As a combination scientific whiz kid and loverboy, Rod invents an anti-gravity device, heads a U.S. space center for NASA, goes home after launch to a more or less circular pad with a guest wing as roomy as a Holiday Inn. One unit...
...surprised when the room-and-board change was kept a secret from RGA until it was formally announced as a fait accompli (letters to parents announcing the change had been sent from the President's office that morning). What did concern the few students who feel that RGA could perform a useful purpose was what the move suggested about the organization's current function. Most Radcliffe students lost interest in RGA long ago. The legislature has been virtually forced to concern itself almost exclusively with the subject of social rules. After a year-long debate in 1962-63, the legislature...
Those who contend that the clubs are a good thing for members have a more difficult time arguing that they perform a valuable Service to the University. The clubs' exclusionist philosophy would seem to be out of step with the University's democratic ideals...
...matter of conviction as well as temperament. Reston is practically obsessed with the importance of the newspaper's educational role. (In forty-minute interview recently, that was the only topic on which he volunteered a comment-and he spoke with fervor when he did.) And newspapers can best perform this role by showing the significance of current events...