Word: performing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sprinkling of bald heads-lined up for the big tryout in the 10,000-meter walking race. At the start, a few irreverent spectators began to snicker. The walkers, strutting along with exaggerated hip-wiggles, took no notice. They are used to playing to laughs every time they perform...
...hopes that New York's energetic City Opera (TIME, Nov. 3) will perform one of his operas: "Now that I have one foot in the grave [he is in good health at 53], I guess I've got a better chance...
...Committee on Admissions has solved its problem of choice by compromise. While emphasizing the "democratization" of the College, the committee continues to admit a large body of men from a small number of private schools. These men, as has been pointed out, make generous alumni, and they therefore perform a valuable function while Harvard remains a privately endowed institution. Nonetheless the Admissions Committee should continue to work toward the most efficient and fairest intellectual entrance tests, screening out men whose ability to make use of the College is doubtful...
...probably the vagaries of the undress-for-pay profession that drove her to the opera. "Do you know," she indignantly exclaimed, "that they wouldn't let me perform in Providence, even with my clothes...
Three months ago, when the prelates of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral read his statement in the New York Times, they decided that Composer Harris, who describes himself as "a shouting Methodist," had shouted a bit too loudly. St. Pat's had planned to perform Harris' new Mass for Men's Voices and Organ on Easter Sunday. The plans were dropped...