Word: performer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people have been willing to understand his music, Taj started to perform the country blues (after receiving a degree in Animal Husbandry from the University of Massachusetts) and later Chicago-style blues at a time when most young black musicians were involved with either rhythm and blues of the avant-garde jazz movement that was then flourishing. His early explorations into the Blues were also ensnared by the commercially oriented black blues revival of the late sixties. As long as he was classified as a blues singer." It was clear that few black people would ever rush to hear what...
...life officially ended, Nixon seemed in reasonably good spirits, almost jaunty, at a farewell party for departing aides. That left the staff still on his federally allotted payroll at five, including Secretary Rose Mary Woods. Also on hand are four volunteer associates, like former Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, who perform a variety of chores even though they are now off the federal payroll...
...name, the problems of low morale and numbing monotony surrounding production-line work have been of considerable concern in U.S. industry. One alternative often cited by various work reformers is the team-assembly concept pioneered by the Swedish automakers Saab and Volvo, according to which workers in small groups perform rotating tasks rather than installing the same widget on a fast-moving, impersonal line. American sociologists and union and management officials regularly return from tours of such plants favorably impressed. But recently a group of six Detroit engine-plant employees tried the Swedish way by working at a Swedish auto...
...Northeast sometimes seem to come along more regularly than the trains that run on them. But the one that emerged from Washington last week could well become a reality. Drafted by the U.S. Railway Association, a federal agency created last January by the Regional Rail Reorganization Act, it would perform costly and radical surgery on the deteriorating rail system that stretches over 17 states in the Northeast and Midwest...
...were trading shots with muscular precision. A second area was awhirl with the lithe acrobatics of a track meet. On the Arena's basketball court the hometown Pistons were preparing to play the Washington Bullets. In that three-ring atmosphere, the management appropriately promised that costumed "clowns will perform throughout the game." The unintended reference ultimately proved embarrassing to the Pistons. Treating them like part of the sideshow, the Bullets won by 25 points and reinforced the claim that under the N.B.A.'s big top they are now the main attraction...