Word: performances
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made so far to find out whether the isolated brain functions logically, sizing up a situation on the evidence of its sense nerves, consulting its memory and giving appropriate orders to its muscle nerves. Such experiments might be made by using food rewards to train a living monkey to perform a simple action, such as reaching an arm forward when it hears a set number of familiar sounds...
...President Eamon de Valera. Last week he became the first U.S. President to receive officially an Israeli chief of state, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, 68, whom Johnson entertained with a state dinner and Bach music by Violinist Mischa Elman, 73, and by the Parisian Swingle Singers, who perform their Bach with a modern beat. Said Johnson in an accolade to Eshkol: "We are very much alike. We are both farmers." Two months ago he had received an Arab potentate, Jordan's King Hussein. Now came a non-Arab Moslem, Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and his Empress...
...groups will leave Cambridge on Thursday, and will stop off in Marsh field, Massachusetts, for a week's tune-up. Their first appearance will be on June 16 in Cleveland, where they will perform Handel's Israel in Egypt with the Cleveland Summer Orchestra...
...bitter, too sharp at first, but who persuades us finally; the Earl of Kent, Yann Weymouth, who acts with welcome restraint amid the general ranting; and Edgar, Richard Backus, who makes a fine fool and a noble Edgar. John Ross as Albany and Thomas Weisbuch as Cornwall both perform well, but they are in demanding company. John Lithgow plays an irregular Gloucester. His blinding scene is one of the play's best moments, but too frequently he swings his long arms to less purpose; he is Marlowe's Edward II a little older...
Eisenhower then endorsed A.B.A. proposals to resolve the disability problem and the matter of filling a vacancy in the vice-presidency. The A.B.A. seeks a constitutional amendment under which the Vice President would become acting President if the President declared himself unable to perform his duties. If the President did not, or could not, make such a declaration, the Vice President could petition the Cabinet to declare the President disabled. If a majority of the Cabinet affirmed the disability, the Vice President would become acting President...