Word: performance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Protestant preachers in Italy have their work cut out for them. The Italian constitution of 1948 gives them the green light: "All persons have the right freely to profess their own religious faith in any individual or collective form, to proselytize on its behalf and to perform in private and in public acts of worship, provided that the rites are not contrary to public morals."* But mayors and police chiefs seem to prefer the earlier Fascist police laws of 1929 and 1930, under which non-Catholic places of worship must have permits from local authorities and non-Catholic pastors...
...church in a converted apartment, Rauti carried his case to the 15-man Constitutional Court, whereupon the court ruled that no one in Italy needed a license to build, own or operate a non-Catholic church, but affirmed that ministers must be licensed in order to preach and perform marriages...
...Minsky is convinced that there is nothing special about intelligence or creativity. He thinks that as machines are built to perform more complicated mental processes they will gradually acquire more of the "creative" abilities of the human brain. When the first intelligent machines are constructed, suggested Minsky (perhaps joking only slightly), they may refuse to admit that they are machines at all. Only the really intelligent ones, whose development will come much later, will realize that they are made of electronic components according to principles first discovered in the 1950s...
...recurring difficulty all these publications have faced is to discover a function to perform. As Radcliffe's activities become more and more merged with Harvard's and as Radcliffe editors become more numerous on Harvard publications, the scope and readership of a purely Radcliffe literary venture narrows. Yet the persistence of the Annex over the years tends to lessen any idea that her press will ever stop completely...
...troops" fighting "night battles" to bring in bumper crops of rice, sweet potatoes and cotton. By 6:30 in the morning the clean-swept streets of the teeming cities resound to the chanting of millions of voices as clerks, factory hands and bureaucrats, all clad in blue boiler suits, perform the mass calisthenics that herald the beginning of another ten-to twelve-hour working...