Word: performance
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Before the 70 first-graders at Stephens Elementary School north of Houston could perform a Halloween pageant for their families last week, Democratic Congressman Bob Eckhardt and Republican Challenger Jack Fields, 28, put on their own show...
HARVARD is embarrassed about its secretive preliminary report on admissions, and rightly so. The report suggests that minority students and women at top universities do not perform as well as aptitude test scores would indicate, and that Jewish students perform better. But it makes judgments about student performance and "success" in a vacuum, focusing mostly on standardized test scores and examining them with no attention to social, economic and historical factors, breaking students down instead into groups like "women," "Blacks," and "Jews." It irresponsibly reduces people to statistics; that anyone could consider it valid is cause for fear...
Players can perform under somebody they like--Danny Murtaugh, Bill Virdon, and Gil Hodges are good examples. Maybe Zimmer was too friendly with the boys, but Houk has done it for years and he's had success. Anyway, as Sullivan says, he may not be the right man, but "you'll never know until...
...Brecht might be said to be the cynosure for the contemporary theatre, so is Wedekind, as Brecht's mentor, a star ascendant in the night sky. This is Wedekind year at the Loeb; the American Rep is scheduled to perform Lulu early next year, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club started its season last week with an auspicious production of Spring's Awakening, Wedekind's first work...
...Soviets outnumber the U.S. 2 to 1 in manpower. But Soviet conscripts typically serve in their units for no longer than a year and thus might not perform effectively in the chaotic conditions of battle. Since command from above is absolute, individual soldiers and even officers are discouraged from taking action on their own-a potentially serious drawback, since personal initiative can sometimes turn the tide of battle...