Word: performer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly two hours the models perform their ritualistic dance, ending with the traditional wedding dress. Then, with a spatter of conventional applause, the audience erupts from the gilt seats and flows down upon the black-clad vendeuses stationed at every step on the stairway. Each buyer has her personal vendeuse, each vendeuse her jealously guarded clients. Many will return later to make their decisions. But others, momentarily unhinged, corral their vendeuses, rush off to a grey-curtained alcove, get out of their street dresses and demand to try on themselves one of the creations they have just seen modeled...
...confusion of Harvard architecture, however, Dean Sert will be hard put to achieve many constructive ends. He cannot find a more central location for classrooms than the Yard. But to revamp that center would require vacating many classrooms during the period of construction. Dean Sert is called upon to perform a minor miracle. The only encouraging aspect to his job is that it is the first time Harvard has even seen fit to employ a moderately scientific method of development. We hope it is not too late...
...personnel in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences." For the purpose of the individual tutorial system, the Committee's recommendations for a rigid system of academic advancement meant that there would be fewer tutors, and, in that sense, the grand beginnings of tutorial were destroyed. The Committee, nevertheless, did perform the necessary function of reducing the base of the academic pyramid, which had swollen out of all proportion to the number of permanent appointments at the apex...
...little to redeem it. In those days, brokers used the letters to push sales of the securities they handled, loaded them with glib predictions and tips on questionable stocks. According to a 1933 survey by the Cowles Commission for economic research, 1928-32 forecasts of how certain stocks would perform were actually 4% less accurate than if the choices had been made at random from the list. Eleven years later a similar survey by the commission found that accuracy had improved hardly at all; since then, experts who follow the letters have noted little change...
...whole, The Saintliness of Margery Kempe demonstrates once again that The Poets' Theatre posesses the ability as well as the resources to perform a valuable service as a producer of experimental drama, and that all it needs is some decant material. It's pity that the group is forced to stage this sort of stuff...