Word: performer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cotton." "Nightclubs and brothels have gone," and there is "not one drunkard." Pedicab operators are so content that they no longer quarrel and shout; when "two bicycles or pedicabs collide, those involved exchange smiles." Every morning, all the ministerial bureaucrats "line up in front of the administration buildings" and perform calisthenics -"mildly incongruous," perhaps, but "nothing [is] more reasonable than the principle of compulsory physical education." Such "germ carriers" as "dogs and cats" have been liquidated. The overall result is "a perfect image of a classless society" -a conclusion with which few readers are likely to quarrel. ¶ "From...
...White House. That was in New York to pick up his wife after My Fair Lady. He saw the musical's last 15 minutes. But last night at the White House some of the top hits' leading players were willing to disappoint their paying customers to perform before a President of the United States who has not, as yet, deigned to cross a street to see their fellow Equity players...
...wants to shoot the small foreign carriers out of the air. But many airmen think they should stay out of the international big leagues and concentrate on regional feeder operations where they can perform a real economic service. A prime example is Lebanon's Middle East Airlines (48% British Overseas Airways Corp. owned), which operates a profitable Viscount service throughout the Arab world-where air traffic increases 30% annually (world increase: 13%)-and has no ambitions beyond operating as a feeder service. A second solution for small lines would be to merge with others to form one major international...
...Stradivarius Quartet will perform in the last of the Holmes Hall Concert Series tonight. If the weather is pleasant, the concert will be given at 7:30 p.m. in the Holmes Hall loggia following the Choral Society's concert in the Quad...
There are many small student businesses which have no connection with either HSA or the University and which perform a valuable service to the community. There are others, like my own, which enjoy a constructive relationship with the University through its Student Employment Office (which provides my own business with good and needy student workers), which yet have no connection with HSA. But in the mind of the Harvard community, the onus which rightly or wrongly has been attached to that well-intentioned organization has affected all student enterprise with a public opinion "fall-out" that has seriously injured--which...