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Word: performancy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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LEROY JENKINS, who will perform at Jonathan Swift's next Monday and Tuesday on a double bill with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, belongs to an odd generation of musicians who have performed and recorded a large body of influential music without ever reaching beyond a narrow, rather cultish audience. The 47-year-old violinist has been a primary member of the Creative Construction Company and the Revolutionary Ensemble, two groups that have provided important alternatives to the stale conventions of the post-Coltrane New York avant-garde. All the same, Jenkins is hardly a household word, even...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Fiddler off the Roof | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

...habits even left him free to perform a good deed; he married Thomas Mann's daughter Erika in order to get her out of Nazi Germany and safely under the protection of British citizenship. Auden later enlisted E.M. Forster in a campaign to persuade other homosexuals to perform such rescues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Leader of the Gang | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

With heating, mercury lights bright enough to perform surgery under, a new, expanded ice surface, more comfortable and plentiful seating, and a modern, clean design, the new Harvard facility brings the Crimson a much-needed, spacious home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Bright, New Hockey Home | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

Salvador E. Luria, a Nobel laureate and institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said yesterday he is circulating a letter at several universities--including Harvard--calling on professors not to perform administrative courtesies for B.U. until it drops charges against the professors...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: Professors Say Silber Purges B.U. | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

Signers of the letter will still perform academic services such as giving lectures--but they will decline offers to serve on visiting committees or write letters of recommendation for B.U. positions, Luria said...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: Professors Say Silber Purges B.U. | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

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