Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bankhead, fond of regarding herself as the most outspoken lady of the U.S. theater, tersely philosophized on the contemporary T-shirt school of Methodical actors: "They're just wasting themselves. They're just learning to be a bunch of apes. They'll never be able to perform the classics or Shakespearean dramas. They're just learning how to pick their noses...
...baseball. Dr. Edgerton admitted this defect (he is careful to warn his patients of it in advance), but felt that the operation was still justified because "it is important to do something for the patient emotionally." About 30 of the 500 surgeons at the San Francisco meeting said they perform this operation; some have abandoned it because they got poor results, had to remove the polyvinyl in a second operation...
...other industries are discovering even tougher tasks for the versatile isotopes to perform. Tiremakers long sought a way to control the amount of rubber that goes onto each strand of tire cord. Recently, Industrial Nucleonics Corp. of Columbus, Ohio, one of the top sellers of isotope measuring equipment (1956 sales: $5,000,000), developed a foolproof method. As the tire cord goes through the rubberizing machine, it passes between a capsule of strontium 90 and a radiation counter. If the thickness varies, the detector's reading changes, automatically sets off machinery to adjust the rubber flow. Today...
...religion as a factor in political life." The other is the experiment in modernity which, "in begetting a secular science and secular arts, has also incidentally promoted a secular interpretation of state and law." As a result of this secularization, the state has been assigned tasks it cannot properly perform, for the state "depends for its vitality upon a motivation which it cannot by itself command...
Exeter works its students hard, grades them hard, and flunks them out if they do not perform. An Exeter B- average is usually equivalent to a Harvard B, although most people spend more time working at Exeter, since there are few diversions. The faculty is among the best paid in the country. An Exeter teacher now looks forward to a top salary of $10,000. Like Harvard professors, many of these men are more interested in their subject and their families than in their students...