Word: performance
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...male Glee Club is the oldest college chorus in the country, founded in 1858. The club became the first college singing group to travel abroad when the French government invited it to perform in 1921. The Glee Club was also the first collegiate choral organization to go around the world in the 1950s. The club has since repeated the feat, most recently in 1967. Since 1965, the group has cut 43 records, including four in the last four years...
Brickman concedes that the commission's ability to perform its function is greatly impaired by the administration's stubbornness and sees a battle ahead over authorization of the investigative spots: "You just have to take one look at our offices, they are barren. We have a place to live but no place to sit down...
...answer is obvious: the pressure toward mediocrity is simply too enormous to resist. To stand out one need perform only slightly better than the prevailing level of incompetence. To do much more is to play the fool-doing others' work -and invites the hostility of coworkers...
Once mastered, the computer phones can perform a variety of functions at the touch of a button or two. These jobs include: transferring a call to another extension, automatically placing a call at a set time, notifying the user when a previously dialed busy line becomes free, intercepting calls going to another extension, programming the phone so that frequently called numbers can be stored and then activated by using a three-digit number, and automatically redialing a previous call to the outside...
...noisy exuberance of Ain't Misbehavin' inspires movement of quite a different kind. Though it received the 1978 Tony Award for Best Musical, the show is really more of a revue, in which three women and two men--costumed in glittery '30s chic--perform over 30 songs either written or recorded by Fats Waller, the legendary jazzman whose talent for blues and jive helped create the sound of swing...