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Word: performs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offset by the boom in symphony work. There is only one orchestra in the country-the Boston Symphony-that could be said to work the year round. Members of other major orchestras can count on 3-8 months' work, and the great majority of secondary groups perform only.a dozen or so times a year. The major symphonies in 1954 paid instrumentalists an average of only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Musicians' Plight | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...already convinced me of his superiority as a presidential candidate, I should certainly have come to that conclusion after looking at your April 9 News in Pictures showing silly-faced Estes Kefauver in his campaign antics. If those are the kinds of shenanigans a man has to perform in order to be nominated for the presidency, I can only say that a job more worthy of the character of a man like Stevenson ought to be created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 23, 1956 | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Tudor, a pianist, will perform a number of modern American and European works, including two of Cage's compositions. Cage, who will join him on a second piano for the world premiere of Cage's "Music for Two Pianos," has been lecturing on musical concepts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experimental Music In Sanders Tonight | 4/20/1956 | See Source »

...physical fitness director of Philadelphia's Broadwood Health Institute, but he kept control of Breen's training by telephone and letter, nursed and egged him on to this year's Eastern Intercollegiate 1,500-meter title. Then he went to New Haven to watch his protege perform in U.S. swimming's two big meets, the N.C.A.A. championships and the A.A.U. meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Victory for the Flail | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...from Alsace. As a Government administrator-governor of the Federal Reserve Board, first chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., etc.-he served under every President from Wilson to F.D.R. He wanted the Post not only for the role it would give him in Washington's life, but to perform another kind of public service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guest at Breakfast | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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