Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city of Sodom,* which has been pretty much out of the news since Lot's Wife turned into a pillar of salt and the whole sinful citizenry got its comeuppance (Genesis 19), was back in the limelight. Tel Aviv's Chamber Theater Company arrived in Sodom to perform for the local miners and settlers-among them, Israel's former Premier David Ben Gurion, now a sheep farmer. On a stage set up near the Dead Sea, 1,200 ft. below sea level, the actors put on a new play, Casablan, dealing with the social and psychological integration...
...Despite slow progress toward finding a cause or cure for muscular dystrophy, doctors believe that victims can be helped by muscle training, special gadgets to help them perform everyday tasks, and psychological counseling. To provide these, the Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America opened a big clinic in downtown Los Angeles, hope to open a score like it across...
...basic rule "not to stand on ceremony and never to erase." He put it down simply, quickly, directly, without ornamentation, racing on the wing of the event, often dashing off notations in telegraphic French and dotting it with unlikely Italian and improbable English ("She did can well perform and not be applaused"). Diarist Beyle's spontaneous self-communion is raw, inchoate, crackling with vitality, sometimes overdetailed, often brilliantly illuminating...
...addition, the Yardling glee club's first formal concert will be Dec. 15, at the Unitarian Church in Cambridge. The club will also perform at the annual Christmas dinner at the Union. The programs for both these events have not yet been arranged...
...owner, Queen Elizabeth II. But his reputation had preceded him to the U.S. Every horseplayer who had come to Laurel, Md. for the third running of the Washington, D.C. International knew the skittish three-year-old as a notorious equine neurotic. Balky as a kid who always refuses to perform for company, he had an exasperating habit of quitting in a close stretch drive...