Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Comedian Dick Gregory will perform in Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. Sunday in a fund-raising concert for the Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee, it was announced yesterday...
Nimble Fingers. Women perform best in jobs that require stoic patience, an eye for detail, and nimble fingers. Atlanta's Scripto Inc. employs women to put together its small pencils; the personnel chiefs at Burroughs Corp. believe that women can tolerate the tedious routine jobs that would drive men up the walls. The monotonous, repetitive jobs in the textile and garment plants are held almost wholly by women, and one-third of the nation's electronics gear is wired and assembled by them...
...integration. "The problem is not so much segregation," but habits of mind that discourage Negroes from trying to improve themselves. Lowe himself ignored advice that he give up plans to attend college, and went on to earn a Masters in Education. He frankly admits that Negro students do not perform as well as white students. Negro enrollments would tend to "debilitate" presently all white schools. Under these circumstances, Lowe does not regard civil rights as the only worthwhile goal to be achieved for the Negro. He prefers to devote his own attention to specific psychological or socio-economic disabilities that...
...order to hold on to fourth place overall, the team will have to perform much better tomorrow in the 40 metre jump than it has in the past. Gibson expects his jumpers to finish in sixth place, which would result in a third-place finish in the nordic combined, a combination of the four best scores in cross country and the jump
Then he would rise from the piano to perform his Monkish dance. It is always the same. His feet stir in a soft shuffle, spinning him slowly in small circles. His head rolls back until hat brim meets collar, while with both hands he twists his goatee into a sharp black scabbard. His eyes are hooded with an abstract sleepiness, his lips are pursed in a meditative O. His cultists may crowd the room, but when he moves among them, no one risks speaking: he is absorbed in a fragile trance, and his three sidemen play on while he dances...