Word: performer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chin initiated three years ago. Students from colleges all over the Boston area, along with one or two big-name stars from Hong Kong, present an evening of Chinese culture and entertainment. The money from the ticket sales goes to 11 different volunteer organizations in Chinatown that perform social services for the community...
...with hopes of economic betterment, but once they arrive many discover that they can expect to have a hard time. Unable to complain to authorities, aliens working as domestics, farm hands, restaurant employees or garmentmakers often must tolerate meager wages in return for the tasks they perform and sweatshop conditions on the job. Says a young Greek who jumped ship seven years ago: "We don't take jobs away from the Americans. Greeks wash dishes in restaurants for $100 a week. Americans won't do that." Yet in March, when the INS rounded up 50 aliens employed...
...education and employment, despite the existence of "special privileges" which go only to a few. Malay youth are never called up to serve in the armed forces, for example--a supposedly compulsory duty--and hence are denied advantages in employment and other privileges which go to national servicemen. They perform many of the society's more menial functions and are to be found in the ranks of gardeners, chauffeurs, office peons and other low-paid jobs...
...judge ecclesiastical court. That left as the star witness his predecessor as presiding bishop, John Hines. When Stringfellow asked Hines his opinion of the ordinations, he replied: "I believe them to be valid but irregular." Hines, however, stated that a bishop can refuse to license an ordained minister to perform priestly functions...
...career was at its peak. Yet, reversing the ambition of those opera singers who long to perform in nightclubs, Flack yearned for her classical roots. "One of the hassles of being a black female musician," she says, "is that people are always backing you into a corner and telling you to sing soul. I'm a serious artist. I feel a kinship with people like Arthur Rubinstein and Glenn Gould. If I can't play Bartok when I want to play...