Word: performance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficult for Westerners to understand how so vast a population can psychologically reverse itself so quickly. It is like trying to imagine an aircraft carrier turning on a dime. Over the years, of course, the Chinese have been required to perform wrenching changes of allegiance, as friends became enemies and onetime heroes of the revolution underwent their metamorphoses in the character assassins' wall-poster invective that declared dissidents to be "insects," "pests" or "ferocious feudal monsters." The process has bred measures of confusion, sophistication, cynicism and nimbleness in the Chinese...
Coveted though they may be, Nobel prizes can be mixed blessings to scientists. At every turn, the winners are beseiged with demands to make speeches, grant interviews and perform myriad chores that leave precious little time for research. Even worse, an awed public often takes their statements with almost oracular seriousness. So says Rosalyn Yalow, the 1977 Nobelist in medicine, who concludes that the most prized policy for a laureate may sometimes be silence...
...beneficiaries of a promising new form of dialysis, or blood purification for kidney patients. Its name is awesome: continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, CAPD for short. But its effect is simplicity itself. It totally frees patients from long, wearying sessions on the kidney machine. They can walk about, work and perform daily tasks while their blood is being cleansed. Dr. Karl Nolph, Morgan's nephrologist, or kidney specialist, calls CAPD the closest thing yet to a completely portable internal artificial kidney: "It functions continuously, maintains steady conditions in body chemistry, and requires no machinery, electricity, blood-thinning drugs...
About 25 members of the Yale Repertory Theater will follow Brustein to Harvard to join his company. The company plans to perform seven shows annually, plus a Christmas show, on the mainstage...
...always a nightmare, Bailey says. Representatives of the Dramat waged a yearly struggle with graduate school administrators in an effort to extend stage slots. "Some years Brustein just handed down a calendar without ever asking us for our approval. One year they assigned us our spring vacation as performance time. Another time it was Thanksgiving weekend. And they always considered our reading and exam periods prime weeks for us to perform...