Word: performancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attorney General to go to prison: "My reflections since the trial upon my acts and deeds have led me to considerable remorse and regret that they occurred." He added that "no set of circumstances, whatever they might be, will ever again lead me to take such actions or to perform such deeds. I am truly sorry...
...addition, a combined chorale of Cambridge City Councilors, local businessmen (including Tommy), firemen, and professors emeritus will perform the "extended play" version of the smash-movie-theme song/rock-ballad "You Light Up My Life" on the steps of Widener Library on the Harvard University campus on any given Sunday. (Ha.) (A: The Pythagorean theorem; upper right molars (part A), prophylaxis (part...
...John D. MacArthur, 80, chairman of the board of Bankers Life and Casualty Co. in Chicago, eliminated mandatory retirement for his company when he was still in his 40s. He has no regrets. About 4% of his 12,000 employees are 65 or over, and the company says they perform just as well as, if not better than, their juniors. "The forgetfulness of a younger person is called absent-mindedness," says Gerald L. Maguire, director of corporate services for Bankers Life. "But when a person 70 years old forgets, it is called senility. However, we are tough about requiring...
Canal Zone is three hours long and somewhat repetitive, but its temperature rises steadily as it proceeds. At first it seems that Wiseman has made this film only to poke obvious fun at colonialism: he includes some all too pointed shots of the downtrodden Panamanians who perform the Americans' menial labor. By the time Canal Zone reaches its Memorial Day climax, however, it becomes as bitter as Sinclair Lewis' Main Street...
Ironically, the price that Robeson paid for that vision was his own freedom to perform and travel as a man of all nations. In the heat of McCarthyism, the State Department began denying him visas to travel abroad to accept the performing offers that continued to pour in from around the globe. On June 12, 1956, he was called up before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and badgered about his ties to the Communist Party. America gave Robeson little peace in his last decade, and he had every right to turn bitter and resentful...