Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spring of 1961-the year of the diploma riot-the Student Council Forum invited folk-singer Pete Seeger '40 to perform at the University. Seeger was then appealing his conviction for contempt of Congress: he had refused to testify before the HUAC on subversive activities in the entertainment field...
Beyond the Fringe chips away at petrified people, calcified cliches and sacrosanct cows with remarkable satiric finesse. Four young and infectiously funny Englishmen perform the iconoclastic surgery...
Vicki is the daughter of F. F. Unus, the man who stands on one finger. The Unuses, like most circus stars, live in Sarasota. In Sarasota, even the high school has a circus. Three years ago Vicki told her father that she wanted to perform. Vicki was 5 ft. 3 in. and 125 Ibs. Said her father, with a pro's cold cynicism: "What will you do, brush off the seats?" Vicki lost 10 Ibs. and went into training under the great Lalage, whose real name is Wolfgang Roth...
Beyond the Fringe chips away at petrified people, calcified clichés, and sacrosanct cows with remarkable satiric finesse. Four young and infectiously funny Englishmen perform the iconoclastic surgery...
...London a melancholy joke went the rounds: "Not since 1066 has a Harold been so badly done in the eye by a Frenchman." To the exasperated British, it all recalled the fairy story of the princess who assigns to an unwelcome suitor a series of seemingly impossible tasks to perform-but when the suitor returns triumphant to claim her hand, the princess says: "Oh, I could never marry a man with red hair." Paris wags were retailing the joke about De Gaulle's new inferiority complex: "He thinks he's Napoleon...