Word: performs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fort Robinson in Nebraska, and on Mayflower II in Massachusetts, where Indians scaled the rigging, hauled down the Union Jack and burned it on Plymouth Rock. Meanwhile the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco revealed a stunning decision, a ruling that the Government is obliged to perform the same services for urban Indians-nearly one-half of all American Indians-as it does for reservation dwellers. That decision, binding only in the West, where most Indians still live, could be the stimulus for a spate of demands by Indians across the country...
...were getting some startling treatments. Dr. Jacobson, said the Times, had been dispensing amphetamines, the powerful stimulants known to the drug culture as "speed." He had given injections to dozens of the country's leading writers, politicians and jet-setters to elevate their moods and help them to perform better...
...semi-pro English north country rugby team. Six days of the week, they are peaceable, nondescript employees somewhere. On the seventh day, they gird up their loins for gory combat. The changing room is where they come and go from their catchpenny Armageddon. In Act I, the men perform their initiation rites, strip down, loosen muscles, get into their uniforms. In Act II, they come off the field of combat, boy-toy soldiers, some broken (George Lithgow) all muddy and bloody. In Act III, after a late-minute victory, they are roaring, towel-flipping conventioneers with a communal shower...
...need not be, says Pianist Charles Rosen, a sometime author who won a National Book Award earlier this year for The Classical Style. In the current issue of the literary journal Prose, Rosen argues that for concert performers, at least, stage fright is an outgrowth of the questionable principle that recitalists must perform from memory. Playing by heart may make the performance seem a spontaneous creation of the virtuoso himself. But since the audience already has in mind an idealized notion of the music, an inevitable gap opens between concept and realization. Public humiliation awaits the performer who lets...
...University Choir sang the first two cantatas of the six that make up the Christmas Oratorio. The performance was a great testimony to the ability of the Choir. Throughout the school year, music at Memorial Church is relegated--rightfully--to a supportive role. The carol programs grant the Choir a chance to perform as a solo ensemble without leaving contest...