Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Automobile Workers, Walter Reuther got up at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington and spoke the mouthful of the week. With a boyish grin, he remarked: "I think Henry is a lost soul. People who are not sympathetic with democracy in America are influencing him. Communists perform the most complete valet service in the world. They write your speeches, they do your thinking for you, they provide you with applause and they inflate your ego as often as necessary...
...remaining commonly used methods of instruction do not perform this necessary task. Discussion or section meetings and assigned reading depend for their value upon the capability of the individual instructor who conducts the meeting or assigns the reading. They can be and are valuable; but they are more devoted to penetration into the subject matter of a given course than to moulding various courses into a solid unit. Even within the limit of one course, they usually are designed to provide more facts rather than to correlate those already learned...
...group of men on the Faculty. The Administration sat quietly by, watching carefully all the while. It tacitly approved the productions offered by the French, German, English, and Classics Departments, as these had an aura of educational value. The debut, in 1881, of this phase of dramatics was the performance of "Oedipus Tyrannus" in Sanders. Its being by an ancient made it passable. Its being given in Greek made it somewhat laudable. And its being the first known performance in America of a classical play in the original language combined novelty with austerity, making it indubitably safe to perform...
...group using its own time, its own money, and its hard work seems unfortunate. Although the Society has done a very fine job, it is by necessity limited to just its own field of concentration. The University, by merely appropriating a more sizable sum to its course catalogue, could perform the same needed service for every department in the College. But until that far-distant date when the University sees the greatness of the need, it would be nice to see the Social Relations Society's plan mushroom into a group of similar projects in other departments...
Dowagers & Movie Stars. The change was not immediately apparent, especially last week, the week of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. Like every U.S. envoy, Lew Douglas had traditional diplomatic rites to perform. He went to a reception at Buckingham Palace, to a dinner with the dowager Marchioness of Reading, and to a St. James's Palace reception to see Princess Elizabeth's wedding gifts...