Word: perform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Undoubtedly the hundreds of nicely dressed young men and women who jammed the Eliot House dining hall Wednesday night went to hear a session of sweet balladeering. What they heard was one of America's most authentic ethnic characters perform in a manner that was more interesting historically than musically...
...from law school at 22 and quickly understood where the future lay under an iron-fisted dictator. Finding a job as a government prosecutor, he was the perfect functionary-meek, efficient, trusted. By 1936, Balaguer was under secretary for the presidency and the little man around the palace to perform odd jobs. He went on from diplomatic missions (to Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico) to Cabinet posts (Education, External Affairs), and finally, in 1957, to Vice President under the benefactor's puppet President, Brother Hector. Last year, when Trujillo sensed growing resistance, he removed Hector and installed Balaguer to stage...
Right through to the glorious final Communio, the New York Pro Musica did far more than perform old music; it removed the patina from a neglected master, piece and presented it as living example of the vigor of the Renaissance...
Over the summer, Segal and Raposo brought "the wrath of Achilles" to Sardi's Restaurant in New York in a backers' audition. After Segal had finished romping through "The Deus ex Machina Mambo," someone asked him if he would perform in the New York production...
...replied: "Are you kidding? I wouldn't perform in a play by an unknown author...