Word: performer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...OFTEN QUESTION the motives of journalists, including myself. They at once perform the easiest and most difficult jobs in the world: difficult, because they must face the real world every day, see its problems and hear its cries; easy, because they can hide behind a veil of objectivity and assume that because they are chronicling the world's pain, someone else will relieve it. This article is one example; I could assume that the mere act of writing it will change people's minds, break them away from the apathy and frustration that seem to engulf...
Edelin said that he decided on October 2, 1973, to perform the hysterotomy operation after two unsuccessful attempts to abort the fetus by injection of saline solution into the womb...
...NLRB criteria, any group of workers whose members perform similar tasks in a similar setting may form a union. The issue at the medical area hearing will not be similar tasks but whether the medical area and the parts of the University on this side of the Charles are similar settings. If the organizing committee wins, it will hold an election, probably win and form a union: if it loses it could join forces with a similar group in Cambridge and prepare to wait another year or two for unionization...
...committees were at least temporarily deposed. Although two were fighting to regain their posts, and no successor was certain of approval in any of the four positions, the action jolted the leaders of all 21 House committees into a new awareness: they will have to heed their colleagues and perform effectively if they wish to retain their power...
...have never been impressed with that essay," he writes, explaining that the politician is entitled to a language distinct from that employed by the man of letters, by Schlesinger's men of the "true word." The language of politics must be flexible enough to enable the politician to perform his essential role, which is obtaining a consensus from the disparate groups in society. "It is the task of the politician to persuade people to do things...and he must therefore be allowed to use his language to this end." As an example, Fairlie cites Lyndon Johnson's politicking...