Word: performer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which belongs to another (Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas),' is one which is accepted by every legal system in the world." Furthermore, said Lloyd, "there is no real substance in the idea that a state suffers infringement of its sovereignty by allowing an international authority to perform certain functions in its territory." He cited the examples of the international commissions that already run such international rivers as the Rhine and the Danube...
...second half of their concert at the Balboa Park Bowl last week, they were impeccably dressed in black dinner jackets and black formals. But among them suddenly appeared four raffish young men in beige sports jackets and striped ties. They were the Dave Brubeck Jazz Quartet, there to perform in Howard Brubeck's Dialogues for Combo and Orchestra. It was the first time that a jazz group improvised in a concert with a symphony orchestra...
...them, and waited for the clock to strike nine. For the next three hours they tackled questions for which none of them could have crammed. They matched pairs of words (POSSESS is to LOSE, as a) hesitate is to advance, b) cease is to recur, c) undertake is to perform, d) continue is to desist, e) produce is to supply); solved math problems and arranged given sentences into intelligible paragraphs ("a) Since his day it has undergone change, b) President James Monroe announced it in 1823. c) Its primary purpose, security for the Republic, has, however, remained the same...
GRAND HISTORIC MASS-CONVERSION CEREMONY, proclaimed posters in a town by the Ganges. Loudspeakers blared that "many Christians tonight will perform a mass return to the religion of their souls...
...Chalk Garden, currently playing at the Boston Summer Theatre, "unites the Gish sisters, Lillian and Dorothy, on a stage for the first time in half a century." As one who wasn't around 50 years ago, and who until the other night had never seen either of the Gishes perform, I can't be too impressed by this theatrical precedent. I can report, however, that the Misses Lillian and Dorothy are both fine actresses, and that they make The Chalk Garden a sparkling, engaging play...