Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...naturally proficient with especial fervor. The most excellent athletes were given rewards of cash and kudos, and put into the entertainment business on weekends. And yet, strangely, the University did not seem to believe that excellence was the only standard, for it also required the physically incompetent to perform alarming feats during their first year of residence. It seemed to be a case of "everybody's being physical, but some people being more physical than others...
...announced sternly, was for bureaucrats to stop ignoring his year-old slogan, "Let all flowers bloom together, let rival schools of thought contend." Bureaucrats should get out and mix with the people and heed their complaints. In particular, said a subsequent party directive, all Communist Party members should "perform physical labor regularly, to associate with the masses and eliminate offensive distinctions...
...progress of integration in New York City's public schools. Said the president: "In the light of the emotions and tensions over this question in Alabama. I felt that Mr. Hutchinson could not expect to advance his career at this institution." Obviously, retorted Hutchinson, "professors who dare to perform their function of providing information do so at the peril of their jobs and professional reputation. It is precisely on emotionally charged subjects that debate and discussion must be allowed. If we condone an abdication of intellectual discussion on such matters, then emotion reigns supreme...
...poet and the Negroes who have never turned away from death, but lived with it, knew it, now can perform its dance since there is no discrepancy between their consciousness and the unalterable nature and climax of the world. This mutation of the primitive consciousness, is the fundamental theme of the book...
...regime's first major change was to perform the biggest physical transformation in the paper's 140-year history. Thomson banished the solid columns of classified ads that had filled the front page since the Scotsman became a daily in 1855, and turned over Page One to news. "There are 1,700 daily newspapers in the U.S.," Thomson said, "and not one of them fills the front page with want ads. Are they all out of step...