Word: perform
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Harvard undergraduates won't be left out of the festivities. Walker has slated various student musical groups to perform. "I wanted to bring in as many Harvard people as possible," Walker explains. "I am not so presumptuous as to think I could absorb everything that makes up a Harvard person...
When Gutwillig suggested they perform for theFestival for Life benefitting AIDS research thisspring, Moore and Ronis decided to round up theimaginary people they've been carrying with themand place them within a dramatic structure...
...wouldn'thave missed it for anything, I wouldn't want tohave been any different. I'm less sure now of whatmy greatest dream is than when I arrived, but I'vegathered many smaller dreams during my stay.Harvard has allowed me to cultivate my love of andability to perform, though now there is no audibleapplause...
...later tip him with it. The title character of V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas is a version of the author's father, a West Indian journalist. Seepersad Naipaul publicly labeled the rite of goat sacrifice superstitious. He subsequently received a note in Hindi ordering him to perform the sacrifice or perish within the week, acquiesced, and then went mad. "He looked in the mirror one day," the novelist's mother recalled, "and couldn't see himself. And he began to scream." A siren of Britain's Roaring Twenties, Heiress Nancy Cunard appears in at least seven books...
...specialty is workstations, high-powered desktop computers that perform as well as much larger and more expensive minicomputers. Favored by scientists and engineers, workstations can manipulate graphics and data many times as fast as standard personal computers. In its short life, Sun has captured 20% of workstation sales in the U.S., and is rapidly gaining on Chelmsford, Mass.- based Apollo, which first developed that kind of computer and still holds 39% of the market. The stakes in the competition are enormous: workstation sales are expected to surge from $735 million last year to $2.5 billion...