Word: performer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...helped by years of psychotherapy. He instead gave them antidepressant drugs which soon corrected their behavior. Thanks in large part to his work, drug therapy could replace psychotherapy. Sperry, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine with two Harvard professors in 1981, has achieved far more. He performed brilliant and often misconstrued experiments which showed that the two halves of the brain perform different functions: the left half predominating in verbal tasks, the right in spatial tasks...
...science is not always the best way to achieve a defined aim. When we need to wire new lighting for our house, we never hire a physicist to perform a complicated array of calculations; he could easily make a mistake and the house would burn down. Instead we call on an electrician who might know nothing about the scientific theory of electricity, but who has learned by custom and experience what sort of wiring works best...
...feel used," one minority freshman told Moses last week, commenting on the discrepancy between the admissions office and freshman dean's policies. Another student, speaking at a race relations conference last weekend, was even harsher: "The College is using minority students like a circus--to perform for other people." The students see the calendar issue as part of a wider University disregard for the concerns of Third World and women students...
Should you decide to stay, you'll witness a sport that has probably been seen by more people in Nottingham, England, than on the entire Eastern seaboard of the United States. Players will be "bowling" the ball into batters in an attempt to perform such feats as "bowling a maiden over"--a maneuver that has no real correlation to anything in baseball other than striking a batter out without the batter losing...
Miller said that he sever planned on a care or in the arts, but in 1939, as a struggling young inters in London, he was offered the opportunity to write and perform in a comedy revue at the Edinburgh Summer Pestival...