Word: performance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seat in the air-conditioned cabin, there is no tranquillity about a 19,000-lb., 150-h.p. John Deere 7700 combine, even run at half throttle. The engines hiss and suck. The cutting blades click like a madwoman's knitting needles. In this age, when transistors perform wondrous deeds with assistance from only a few volts of electricity, the combine, despite its air conditioner, turbo engine and two-way radio, is a functioning monument to 19th century mechanical ingenuity. It is a jumble of rubber belts propelling multisized wheels that turn gears, pull pulleys and rotate augers. The object...
Still, the function of a newspaper is to inform, not to proselytize; by remaining skeptical of all sides, and restricting editorial comments as much as possible to their proper place, we can perform that duty. At times this angers people--that is unavoidable, when a paper is dealing only with simplified accounts of fast-moving events. Yet as long as we give every side space to comment, as long as as many views as possible make it into print, then this newspaper, like any other, is doing its job. Bruised egos can heal later...
...women's fencing teams not only perform at a decent level of competition, but they also provide opportunities for demented sorts at The Crimson to pen the goriest headlines all year...
...world is divided, into hostile power blocs and political systems, estranged races and classes, various ideologies and religions. Christianity is divided also. The Catholic Church, being the largest and a worldwide church, could, if truly united, perform an important service in this divided world. It could assist in a very concrete way to diminish and remove the tensions and contradictions in Christianity and in the world, and to render possible a more human life...
...Ralph Richardson, British actor, on being in a hit play: "You've got to perform the role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator...