Word: performance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Isaac Stern, among others, fired off statements aimed at Chicago, warning that they would refuse to appear with the orchestra if Furtwangler conducted. Rubinstein summed it up: "Had Furtwangler been firm in his democratic convictions he would have left Germany . . . Mr. Furtwangler chose to stay and chose to perform, believing he would be on the side of the victors . . . Now he wants to earn American dollars and American prestige. He does not merit either...
...miserable, pompous life came when he heard that the daughter of a cantor, out of love for him, had stood outside his window to see him, and died of exposure. Fascinated by the notion that he might have died in her arms, Rudolph-begged an army officer to perform a double suicide with him. When the officer refused, he made the same plea to his favorite mistress, but she, too, declined the honor. The reader has Author Lonyay's full assurance that another mistress, Mary Vetsera, was delighted to accept. She was thrilled at the thought of being found...
...victories over Brown and Wesloyan behind his team, Priddy calls the Yardlings "a well-balanced squad with a lot of good experience." But the team hasn't been on ice for the past week because of lack of indoor skating space, and Priddy hesitates about predicting how they might perform...
...that the shock will stop the machine's oscillations. This is rather like the shock treatment given to human psychotics. Another cure is to isolate part of the calculator's mechanism, hoping to cut off the source of trouble. This is "like the lobotomies which brain surgeons perform. Lobotomies sometimes work (for both machine and brain) but are apt to reduce, in both cases, the subject's judgment...
TIME accepted the resignation, neither judging nor prejudging his recent disclosures. "Against the admitted disservice to his country of a decade ago," said TIME, "must be set the service we are convinced he is trying to perform for his country...