Word: performs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always been my dream to perform for my people," said Jazz Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, 56. Making his first visit to Black Africa to join Uhuru (freedom) celebrations in Kenya marking ten years of independence, South Carolina-born Dizzy and his trio played to capacity crowds in Nairobi. On Uhuru Day, Dizzy serenaded President Jomo Kenyatta, 82, with a special composition titled Burning Spear (Kenyatta's nickname in pre-independence days). The piece, said Dizzy, included "touches of Indian, South American and African music and quite a few bars of the good ol' American blues." As it turned...
Physiologists point out that the infusion would have little effect in short-time athletic endeavors like pole vaulting and races such as the 100-yd. dash or the 440-or 880-yd. runs; it does not substantially increase the speed at which an athlete can perform. But it does increase the length of time an athlete can function at top speed, and thus for middle-and long-distance runners, it could provide an enormous-and unfair-advantage...
...teachers at Madison, who would prefer to have the children of lawyers and doctors as their students, children who don't cut class, don't etch "fuck" on the desks, don't shoot-up in bathrooms, throw up their hands and cry to administrators, "If we can't perform our role as teachers, at least protect us in our role as policemen...
...stake are the strict "lines of promotion" seniority rules that have traditionally been part of steel labor contracts. Under these complex schemes, each employee learns to perform the job ranking immediately above...
...exchange with Champen, Kathryn Moos '75, who was in the audience, charged that three Harvard professors had received funding from the Justice Department to perform experimentation in "psychosurgery" on prisoners in Massachusetts correctional institutions...