Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theater. The theaters are closed, and big sporting events are prohibited. Under Britain's strict "Quiet Sunday Laws," some of them centuries old, a poet may give a recitation so long as he makes no gestures and dons no costumes (only a Scotsman may perform in a kilt-others would be dressing up). The laws forbid game shooting (except rabbits), beekeeping demonstrations, milk deliveries between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., buying bread at the baker's after i :30 p.m. (although it is possible to borrow a loaf and pay later). A Briton may buy toothpaste...
...able to use their feminine skills of understanding, adapting to others, comprehending emotional factors. . . not [those] driven to emulating male aggressiveness or strutting around as if they had hair on their chests." A woman trying "to take her place with (and perhaps elbowing out) some male executives may perform well for a while, but it seems not to last . . " The woman begins to realize she cannot get both the emblems of successful rivalry and the warmth and kindliness she still unconsciously wants . . [She is] vulnerable to disquieting frustrations and to emotional breakdowns...
...rayon plant, a steel corporation-and is now deep in an enormous ore project in Labrador. Humphrey's exploits made his name magic among the planners and visionaries of U.S. industry, but the public knew him hardly at all. "Business," Humphrey used to say, "is judged by performance and if you perform you don't need to talk . . . I've always discouraged the people I know from making speeches." Humphrey will find that public life is different; that performance doesn't count unless the public understands the what and why and how of it; that education...
...effort into a vast recruitment campaign for football players may be doubted by some cynics. But knowing something of the spirit of the Harvard graduates and their scale of values. I have confidence that it will be done ... in no single matter can the alumni of the Eastern colleges perform a greater service for their own institutions and for the future of higher education than by balancing the spirit of rivalry in athletics with an insistence that each college be judged primarily by its services to the nation as an educational institution...
...Clown gives TV Comic Skelton an opportunity to perform one of his specialties: drunk and pratfall routines. But the picture is mostly an unblushing jerker of glycerin tears...