Word: performer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Osborne's voice-splenetic, grieving, raging-is heard with more furious personal intensity than at any time since Look Back in Anger. As a defeated solicitor for whom life in the modern world has be come a playing field of pain, Nicol Williamson, 28, gives a bravura perform ance of epic dimensions and phenomenal resourcefulness...
...tumbling about in the gutters; selling matches, running errands; working in tobacco shops, cared for by no man." The time spent in school fitted them for jobs in the new industrial world, and the young acquired greater economic importance than ever before. On the Continent, they also began to perform an entirely new political role in the liberal revolutions of 1848. They manned the barricades-against Louis Philippe in France, against King Frederick William in Prussia, against Metternich in Austria. They set up a quasi-revolutionary government at the University of Vienna, issued proclamations and organized an Academic Legion uniformed...
High Promise. Last week's impressive demonstrations of precision launchings and splash-downs, flawless electronic communications and computations, smooth orbital maneuvering and stolid endurance, held out high promise for the remaining five flights of the Gemini program. Gemini 8, scheduled for early next year, will attempt to perform the original mission of Gemini 6: docking in space. If the necessary modifications of the backfiring Agena cannot be made in time, NASA will use a hastily contrived "Augmented Target Docking Adapter." One way or another, Gemini 8 will have a target vehicle...
...refuses to confine her repertory to her most flattering roles. At 32, she has already mastered a remarkable 46 roles-ranging from the Italian war horses to the starkly modern works of Nono, Berg and Stravinsky. Now the hottest new property on the opera circuit, she is scheduled to perform some seven roles in the U.S. over the next four months. This week she will make her debut with the Metropolitan Opera as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust...
...turnover was a disruptive 33%. Newcomer told the Clark County school board that he would take the post only if given full administrative powers, free from daily meddling by board members. Newcomer promptly shoved aside a group of what he calls "old butts"-political types paid administrative salaries to perform mainly clerical chores. He brought in a "cabinet" of five imaginative administrators, four of them from out of state. He was criticized for paying one assistant $15,000 a year just to seek foundation support-until the assistant netted $600,000 in grants within six months...