Word: performed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Politics and the English Language" he analyzed its abuses, observing that cliches "perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself." The abuse of language by recourse to ready-made phrases is the most obvious and often the first of attempts to create the "reduced state of consciousness" which, Orwell later wrote, "is favorable to political conformity...
...minute spectacular, Cinderella, Dame Margot Fonteyn, prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet (formerly Sadler's Wells), announced that on TV "you have to keep your mind skinned" because TV cameras are all over (and a stage audience is just out front). Though Dancer Fonteyn likes to perform on TV, she does not like to look at it: "Wastes too much time. It's paralyzing...
...suggestion was includede in the report, the dean explained, simply as a "reflection of current trends." In particular, the report cited the recent growth of dramatic organizations. Miss Lacey pointed out that most of these groups perform as a single organization, although they must be chartered as a Radcliffe club and a Harvard club...
...technique is a daring one, and Rose handles it expertly-with a strong assist from Director Sidney Lumet. His actors all perform with steady credibility and a good sense of the other fellow's part, which builds the believable individuals into a believable group. And in the heat of the struggle, as the secret motives of the men emerge, the onlooker learns better than he could from any law-school course that the law is no better than the people who enforce it, and that the people who enforce it are all too human...
Lubow, a student of Claudio Arrau, won the Pierian Sodality Concerto contest this spring. At Town Hall he will perform works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Prokofieff...