Word: performer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such bizarre beasts-human beings usually hopped up with hashish and kept in captivity by local experts in black magic -are no strangers to the orderly process of British justice in Africa. In much of Africa the trained, crazed killers masquerade as leopards, perform their dark deeds in leopard fashion by pouncing on the backs of unsuspecting victims from the low-hanging branches of forest trees, slashing their backs and necks with razor-sharp knives fitted to their fingers like claws. In Tanganyika, however, lions are man's most prevalent enemy. There the fashion trend is toward lion skins...
...second work was the Variations, Chaconne and Finale by Norman Dello Joio. It is a well-scored and serious work by one of our leading contemporary composers, and a good work for an amateur orchestra to perform, being neither too difficult nor too trivial in content. The orchestra played it well, and one particularly difficult variation received an unexpectedly virtuosic treatment...
Miss Martzy made her American debut last week in Cincinnati and will perform with the New York Philharmonic next Thursday. She will play the Brahms Violin Concerto in her appearance here...
...kingmaker" of Georgia politics: "We're goin' to buy the houses next door to Hubert Humphrey and Dick Nixon and get us the biggest nigger families we can find to send up and move in. We're goin' to see just how these civil righters perform when the problem is across the street or next door...
Life in the Monastery is not easy. Candidates are expected to perform whatever chores and duties are assigned to them. They undergo all types of humiliation to learn to live simply for the glory of God. "Obedience, humility, and fervour in prayer," are the goals which the Society seeks...