Word: perform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prove that the committee in the 1955 inquiry was not engaged in its primary purpose, that the investigation in the entertainment field did not perform a valid legislative function, that from all the hearings on entertainment since 1947 no legislation emerged, and that the purpose of the inquiry was to single out and expose individuals in order to deny them employment. Ross said also he intended to prove through Walter's testimony that the HUAC was "engaged in indiscriminate dragnet procedures...
...that he makes good. Relatively ordinary vices (pimping, incest) do not seem to work, but when he turns to politics, the devil makes him dictator. For all his new-found power, Jose still admires only talent, and he has a collection of great talents on the way to perform in his privately owned nightclub-a Billy Graham-type U.S. evangelist, a Cuban lad whose only skill is sexual proficiency, a cynical ventriloquist. Author Gary manages to have his way about the failure...
...completely withdraw, who manifests his hatred for the hypocrites of Corvallis by selling whiskey to them. Pride, however, does not succeed in uniting the two sides of Angelo. We are unsure whether he is a man terribly hurt, striking back violently, or-a sadistic artist taking pains to perform every little criminal chore in exactly the right manner...
...Timur, Giorgio Tozzi brings so much sincerity to the part that I can only regret that he did not perform in the Metropolitan revival which I saw a few weeks ago. In his beautiful scene after the death of Liu, Tozzi evokes Timur's peculiar mixture of frustrated power and deep affection with especial effectiveness. Renata Tebaldi has recorded Liu once before, for a London release, and time seems to have lessened the appropriateness of her great voice for this role. Today, she sounds more like a dramatic Verdian heroine, than a pitiful slavo girl. But her extremely sensitive phrasing...
Organizations like the Committee for Nonviolent Action, of which Keyes and Itkin are members, perform essential functions in nation-wide attempts to abolish the arms development contest. Already their demonstrations against the Omaha, Neb., missile ground and protests against nuclear submarines have attracted national attention...