Word: performs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white man is economically well protected by such legislation as the 1926 "Color Bar" Act, which forbids black laborers to perform "white," i.e., skilled, jobs...
...Look" article, which will appear on newsstands Wednesday, illustrate and describes Skinner teaching a dog to perform simple tricks. Skinner report that he and Charles B. Ferster, research fellow in Psychology, were both misquoted by Roddy...
...Bloody Mary" was the first female sovereign to perform the ancient ceremony. She did the job thoroughly, crawling the whole length of Westminster Abbey on her knees. Her half-sister, Elizabeth I, introduced a fastidious innovation. She made sure that the yeomen of the royal laundry had washed the paupers' feet thoroughly and doused them with sweet herbs against infection before she herself laid hand or lips to them. By last week, when Elizabeth II (in her first official public appearance since the funeral of her father) performed the traditional Maundy Thursday rites, the paupers' footwashing had been...
Sensitive performances, however, especially by students, have become almost extinct. The tendency to interpret, rather than perform, Bach's music has resulted in streamlined superficiality on the one hand, and vitiating sentimentality on the other. But Joseph Ponte played with finesse and precision, as well as fidelity to the composer's intentions...
Informality is the keynote to the life at S.L.C. There are 350 young ladies there who although addicted to blue jeans and checkered shirts during the week, can perform miraculous about-face in dress in the interest of any young gentlemen who happen to arrive...