Word: performances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recruitment drive is one part of SAC's efforts to aid Cambodian refugees. The Kennedy School group also plans to sponsor a benefit concert next month and has asked Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, or Linda Ronstadt. All three artists have said they might perform, Susan M. Davis, SAC member, said yesterday...
...longest work, the haunting Cantata No. 2 for voices, choir and orchestra (1943), takes scarcely a quarter of an hour to perform. The shortest of his Three Small Pieces for Cello and Piano (1914) consists of nine measures. His Six Bagatelles for string quartet (1913) go by in an average of 40 seconds each-expressing, in the words of his mentor Arnold Schoenberg, ''a novel in a single gesture, joy in a single breath...
...perform such other functions as may be specified by this agreement or authorized from time to time by the Harvard Corporation and the Trustees of Radcliffe...
...Organization for the Repeal of Abortion Laws), the bill is under injunction and pending review by the Federal District Court on the basis of a Supreme Court decision that all medically necessary services must be available to the poor. As of last May, hospitals are no longer required to perform abortions upon demand except in case of probable death to the mother. Legislation restricting abortions to hospitals with full obstetrical care (rather than women's health clinics), now before the Massachusetts House, could place the woman in a double bind. Also under Massachusetts debate is an "Informed Consent" bill which...
...Along with the thousands of armed batallions that marched into Tibet in 1959 came over five million Chinese "settlers." The Chinese indiscriminately murdered the Tibetans, dismembering and torturing thousands. Monasteries with up to 10,000 inhabitants each were levelled. The invaders forced monks and nuns to copulate and then perform miracles to save themselves. And the Chinese used guns, grenades and missiles on an antiquated country with little more than swords and branches at its disposal for defense. And yet the Tibetans, steeped in centuries of compassion, could not now turn against other men, no matter how barbarous...