Word: performances
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...faun-faced Dancer Weidman, 46, is the son of a Lincoln, Neb. fireman. He joined Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis famed Denishawn group in 1920. On a tour of the Orient with them, it suddenly came over him how absurd it was for a group of Americans to perform classic Oriental dances for the Orientals. "I said to myself, 'Why am I here trying to do their dances. . . . They must wonder how we dance ourselves. How do we?' " In 1929 he teamed up with another Denishawn star, Doris Humphrey, and set out to supply an answer...
They rocked, swayed and whirled in unison, sometimes stopping to let anyone especially moved by the spirit perform solo. Frequently the spirit would work mightily in their midst to produce wild outcries and contortions, "speaking with tongues" or convulsive "jerks" and "barks." "For a while the world's people were admitted to these dances. But when the crowds grew too big, the Shaker elders barred the public...
Sympathectomy, cutting of the sympathetic nerves, is causing the most violent arguments of all. The operation is now prescribed for a wide variety of ailments, from excessive sweating to high blood pressure. Nobody knows how many thousands of sympathectomies surgeons perform each year; there are an estimated 1,000 in Manhattan alone. Admittedly the operation is a life-saver in many cases of gangrene, angina pectoris, hypertension. But some sympathectomies may make men sterile. And because a sympathectomy reduces pain, some doctors consider it insidiously dangerous, e.g., a patient could have a perforating ulcer without pain. The experts agree that...
Imitating v. Analyzing. . . . "We have been confused about education and training. [Training] is a process by which the pupil is taught to perform an act by imitating. [Education] should acquaint the student with ways of analyzing problems . . . he has never seen before...
...midst of dress rehearsal came the bad news. General MacArthur's headquarters had banned The Mikado. The Japanese had applied two months ago for permission to perform it, and hearing no objections, had gone into production. Presumably Allied Headquarters had forgotten all about it until ads appeared in last week's papers, the day before the opening night. The announced reason for the ban: the Japanese had failed to get copyright permission. But unofficially, an Allied officer told U.S. newsmen: "This is not the time for Japanese to perform The Mikado" Japanese newspapers were forbidden even to mention...