Word: perform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first spaceman will be anything but a free soul. Swathed like a mummy in a cumbersome, confining space suit and strapped firmly to a couch, he will be able to perform only the simplest of manual tasks during his tour around the earth. His real job: to act as a human guinea pig for astrophysiologists, supply information on human behavior in the alien environment of space. Says Martin Co.'s Robert Demoret: "The important thing is to determine whether he can function effective, ly once he is up there. And that can only be done with any certainty...
...actual "obligation" taken by members of the Knights of Columbus' top Fourth Degree: "I swear to support the Constitution of the "United States. I pledge myself, as a Catholic citizen and a Knight of Columbus, fully to enlighten myself upon my duties as a citizen and conscientiously perform them entirely in the interest of my country, regardless of all personal consequences. I pledge myself to do all in my power to preserve the integrity and purity of the ballot and to promote respect for law and order. I promise to practice my religion consistently and faithfully...
...Player's Repertoire" concerns an old road-acting couple who perform Priandello-like confusions of identity, with Claire Lu Thomas as leading lady. The style of "Limbo," according to Bellin approaches Strindberg's more closely than that of anyone else in contemporary theatre. Its author, Miss McGuire, has conceived what she calls "an ordinary, extra-ordinary, coffee shop...
...only does Mr. Seeger perform travesties on religious music, accompanying delicate oriental melodies with his down-home two-four banjo rhythm, but he also complements a tender African melody with his own lyrics, composed, he tells us, while pouring concrete for his house on the Hudson River. And they sound like it. They tell, in a strange meter, how loneLEE it is TO watch the lights BLINK off A-cross the riVER in bosTON when you have to GO back to YOUR room aLONE. Poetic "license" is one thing, even for a poet, but wanton distortion of the hillbilly mind...
...simple melody all the florid decorations of a style five hundred miles and years away. One may call it lack of imagination when he treats a powerful song of death as casually as if it were a nursery rhyme. But one becomes aware with increasing discomfort that unerringly to perform such malalignment of styles with such flashy banjo technique Mr. Seeger must be a much more calculating man than one wants to hear simple music from...