Word: perform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night before, by local belief, demons of death stalked the village of Sotouboua (pop. 500) in northern Togo. Streets were deserted, and only the throb of a tom-tom broke the still ness. Next day the men of the village sallied forth to perform the ritual that is supposed to frighten demons away. Some wore fluttery feather headdresses and grotesque carved masks; others chewed the bark of a native bush until the drool stained their chins a deep orange color. Several of them gripped snakes and rats between their teeth...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808 will present a concert of twentieth-century chamber music at 8:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 12 on the Loeb main stage. Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will perform Villa-Lobos' Sixth String Quartet, Carter's Sonata for flute, oboe, cello, and harp sichord, Varese's "Density 21.5." A chorus will perform the world premiere of James Yannatos's "A Modern Dialogue...
...abolished time and space. Computers calculate inventories, bank balances and rocket orbits instantaneously, thousands of miles away from their "clients." Culture is transistorized and education telemetered. Tomorrow or the day after, according to Canada's Marshall McLuhan, the most provocative scientific prophet around, people will be able to perform their jobs or shop via television from their homes (if they and their wives can stand it, that is). Despite such present or potential miracles, the business of voting in America-the most important business in a democracy-is slow, cumbersome and primitive. Says CBS President Frank Stanton...
More curious still was the fact that neither Smith nor McClure seemed in any hurry to leave Cambodia. Perhaps the Viet Cong themselves were not sure how well the two Americans might perform once they were out of Red reach and wanted to keep them under surveillance a bit longer...
...place from the nonrebellious bishops and reform the method of paying bishops. The rebels countered with a threat to excommunicate any bishop who agreed to serve on the government-appointed synod, to cast an anathema on the government, to close every church in Greece and order priests not to perform marriages and christenings...