Word: performer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark at last in the Kyrenia Mountains of Cyprus and the British Commando officer has no appetite for the task he must now perform. He assembles his squad for a patrol, but his mind is on another night like this, 14 years ago. Then he was the hunted, a fugitive from the Nazis who had poured into Greece. Three young Greeks sheltered him, then carried him in a tiny caique away from Greece to safety. Now the officer is the hunter, and it is time to hunt down Greeks as brave and as passionate for freedom as those who saved...
...very richness and confusion of the play make it difficult to perform. When tragedy and comedy follow each other so closely, only a very talented director can keep them from colliding. John O'Shaughnessy does not quite manage it. The comic scenes are satisfactorily quick and lively but, when the drama assumes a more serious mood, the staging begins to look like a religious procession. A ceremonial air may be appropriate at times, but not quite as often as O'Shaughnessy seems to think...
...carried from 2 to 3 colts Revolvers" and knew how to use them. He was a wagoner, a cobbler, a woodsman, a cattle breeder, a farmer, a doctor of sorts who could perform a "surguicicle operation," an impassioned preacher, a shrewd businessman, a layer-on of hands, a seer of fascinating visions. He was one of the toughest men that ever walked, but the Indians (who ate out of his hand) named him Yawgawts, which means Cry-Baby (Lee himself preferred to render it "Man of Tender Passions"), and his foster-father once exhorted him, saying: "I want...
...provided we can come reasonably close to doing Harvard's particular job effectively with increased numbers. The problem really boils down, then, to these questions: what is Harvard's special function in the national educational picture? what specifically would be required in the way of resources and arrangements to perform this function with reasonable adequacy if we have x number of additional students? and can the necessary additional resources be obtained? There is a further general policy question: will our national educational needs be best met by enlarging the already large institutions or by a decentralized development...
...order to avoid the usual Christmas program of th Messiah, on Sunday night the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra played Beethoven's 9th Symphony. The most that can be said for this choice is that it gave the musicians a chance to perform some magnificent music. From the audience's point of view, however, the choice was unsuccessful. The work is simply too difficult for the student orchestra to manage...