Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Hanoi to negotiate; Johnson insists on some solid reciprocal move from the North-not a mere promise. For another, Kennedy, recalling Prime Minister Wilson's claim that "one single act of trust" during last month's Tet pause could have brought peace, believes the U.S. should perform the act; the Administration replies that Wilson was blaming Hanoi, not Washington, for withholding the crucial act of trust...
...Tennessee Williams. The creditable Seattle Symphony plays to S.R.O. audiences in the city's five-year-old cultural center, and the Seattle Opera Association's fledgling company has packed the house for most of its three seasons, attracting such singers as James McCracken and Joan Sutherland to perform with its relatively unknown local talent...
...tenor of recent major U.S. court decisions has been that public aid to religious institutions is permissible so long as the primary purpose is to perform a useful social service. Increasingly, the nation's legislators appear to be adopting a similar philosophy toward extending assistance to church-related schools, hospitals and agencies that contribute to the common good...
Time: 1808. Place: a bathhouse in the asylum where Sade spent the last 13 years of his life-and actually did write plays for the inmates to perform. Playwright Weiss supposes that Sade once wrote a drama in the form of a debate between himself and the great demagogue of the French Revolution. Marat (Ian Richardson) stands for social progress; he believes that the only way to improve people is to improve the society they live in, that violent revolution is the best way to begin. Sade (Patrick Magee) stands on the contrary for moral autarchy; he believes that...
...more concerned today, if only because we are in Cambridge rather than in Washington, with the accommodations that scholars need to make in order to perform a more useful role in the process of policy making...