Word: performer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Naturally, feelings about home also play an important role in the lives of those who do decide to come. "In their own minds they represent their schools, communities, families and countries," Malin says. This brings with it a heightened sense of responsibility to perform...
...long ago Abravanel received a call from some citizens of Dillon, Mont., inviting him to perform there. "We're just a bunch of cowboys," he was told. "Play anything you want." Replied Abravanel: "I think you deserve the best." Dillon was treated to Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. After the first movement there was an ovation. Abravanel explained that the symphony had four movements, so would the audience please save the applause until the end. The audience obediently counted; unfortunately, there was only a slight pause between the third and fourth movements, so that when the symphony crescendoed...
There has to be organization, and not the type which develops when you wait until November to elect a captain, when off-season practice is a farce, when regular season practice is almost as great a farce, and when there are never five players who perform together for more than ten minutes at a time...
...Harvard athletes have too much on their study-oriented minds to perform well in their sports. Mel Embree is a case in point, albeit an exceptional one. As for team sports, what of Joe Restic's spectacular success with the football program (none of whose participants can really count on professional careers) and Bill Cleary's annual miracle-working with the Harvard hockey program? In sum, what makes the basketball program different...
...said that because VES is a restricted department there are concentrators who simply fail to perform and "who have to be led by the hand so they can graduate in the department." Loeb said about 20 per cent of the department's concentrators graduate cum laude in General Studies every year...