Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Solo Lights Out. Then the dancers come out, lay their swords and scabbards in a cross on the floor and perform the Gillie Callum, or individual sword dance (which is said to date from 1054). Their arms held aloft like antlers, their thumbs and forefingers held delicately together, the dancers leap around and over the swords in a crescendo of movement that usually sets the crowd to whooping, yelling and stomping. Toward the end, a solo piper-spotlighted on a platform as though he were walking a battlement-softly plays Lights Out, and with a final scream of pipes...
House masters expressed enthusiasm over the increase. Reuben A. Brower, master of Adams, claimed that "this, more than any other thing since Mr. Lowell, has permitted the Houses to perform their educational function. Before the two grants were made," Brower commented, "we all had the will, but not the means...
...Ronald Norwood Davies, do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent on me as U.S. judge for the district of North Dakota according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help...
...missile capable of intercepting an ICBM, but both the Army and the Air Force are working on "aunties" (Pentagon slang for antimissile missiles). An auntie would have to perform with fantastically superfine precision-unattainable, some scientists fear-in order to find a remote target moving at 15,000 m.p.h., but if it does prove to be feasible, auntie plus ORDIR would take the ultimateness out of the ultimate weapon...
...impressed East Enders, who at first were apt to dismiss them as so many practitioners of the "soul racket." But the East End is still overwhelmingly unchurched. To Father Oswald the plays' purpose is the same one that sent 15th century Christians into England's streets to perform the classic morality play Everyman (in which God dispatches Death to demand an immediate "rekenynge" from the happy-go-luckless hero): to reach those who will not come to church and present Christianity to them in simple, vivid terms. Says Father Oswald: "You see, the spoken word is not good...