Word: performer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the viewpoints of the politician and the sociologist, the minorities in the crucible continued to behave separately and distinctly. Only in the last decade, nearly 200 years after its enunciation, has the melting pot finally begun to perform as longtime myth would have...
...George Jorgensen went to Denmark and returned, after a series of operations, as "Christine," the U.S. public and medical profession alike were appalled at what seemed to be "mutilative surgery." Attitudes have changed so much since 1952 that last year a Baltimore court ordered Johns Hopkins surgeons to perform an identical operation on a 17-year-old boy. And last week the university announced that it has opened a center for the diagnosis and treatment of transsexuals. Hopkins surgeons have already operated on five men and five women...
...long run, however, the dangers of laying the case to rest now are greater than the liabilities inherent in a reinvestigation. The Warren Commission's failure has cast widespread doubt on the government's ability to perform its self-appointed tasks. A new investigation -- marshalling the full resources of the Federal government -- cannot fail to come closer to the truth than did the Warren Report. And at worst, it will substitute an honest area of doubt for an unjustified and increasingly shaky certainty...
...Foundation grant. Taking his cue from European drama conservatories, Director Theodore Hoffman refuses to let his 222 students act until they have been through a year of drilling in the fundamentals of the theater-voice, mime, satire, circus stunts. Only then are they permitted to perfect their art by performing 15 hours a week (v. three to six at most schools). "Perform or perish," says Hoffman...
There were to be two Shakespeare productions, and four Marlowe readings. The whole thing would continue over the summer. Related seminars would be conducted by Faculty Shakespeare and Marlowe scholars, so festival participants could learn as well as perform. It sounded just dandy...