Word: performer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...willful petulance which has been at the base of much of the anti-Johnson sentiment in the country. As George Meany told the Building and Construction Workers, "I don't think we are going to turn a back on a friend just because he has a difficult task to perform at a time when he needs his friends more than ever...
...SECOND problem is that the SFAC has an over-blown view of its own power. Members feel they must use their power cautiously to avoid offense or provocation. They feel a ponderous pseudo-responsibility to perform solemnly and circumspectly. In fact, they have very little power, as the Faculty has shown them...
...original idea for the festival was Foss's, the planning and expenses are being borne by a dozen different local and state institutions (even Buffalo's bantam-sized 7,800-student state college got in the act by inviting Merce Cunningham and his dance company to perform two new works during a four-week stay). The festival committee is chaired by the Albright-Knox's director, Gordon Smith, 61, and the residual deficit will doubtless be met by the gallery's longtime Medici, former seven-goal polo player and investment banker Seymour ("Shorty") Knox...
...perform a fire dance, and the mesmerism is like that of a bull-fight. The drums and the singing grow quiet as the two men, both stripped to the waist, both black as the night, dance with torches in each hand. They pass the torches over their bodies and let the flames lick their faces. They walk on hot coals and seem to wash their bodies in the fire--which does not burn because the voodoo god protects his dancers...
After the audience has deserted Mailer, it heaps its affections upon soft-spoken Lowell. Mailer describes his feelings as he watches Lowell perform: Mailer felt hot anger at how Lowell was loved and he was not, a pure and surprising recognition of how much emotion, how much simple and childlike bitter sorrowing emotion had been concealed from himself for years under the manhole of his contempt for bad reviews...