Word: performs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Levanter's Eastern European friends to the secret police resulted in the brutal crippling of his friend. Levanter lures the clerk to a sauna, knocks him unconscious, then unflinchingly shoves a saber up his rectum. While Kosinski says he himself would not have killed the clerk, making Levanter perform that act confronts the reader with the question: at what moment should life be spared. "The act generates respect for life even though it is about violence," Kosinski maintains...
...hire a singer to perform...
...often, says Harvard's Riesman, public schools cater to teen-agers desire "to be entertained." Consequently, homework and requirements have gone down, grades have gone up. Watered-down curriculums fail to challenge. "The only places in schools today where people are really encouraged to perform up to capacity are in sports and the band," says Riesman, adding that elitism is almost as dirty a word as sexism or racism " Back-to-basics proponents advocate tightening up the curriculum with more requirements and forcing all students to show minimal competency" in essential skills before graduating. So far, 26 states have passed...
Britain's national exam system is even tougher than France's. At 16 students may take O Levels, or ordinary exams. Some 70% now "sit" at least one O Level, but only 33% manage to pass one. Those who perform well may undertake the even tougher A Level advanced exams two years later. A Levels are comparable in difficulty to sophomore work at an American university. Only 12% to 16% of students progress that far; only 10% are finally admitted to university...
...main cultural component of the weekend will take place Sunday when the Yale Black Gospel Choir, Harvard's Kuumba Singers and the Nzinga African Dance Troupe of Yale will perform. A black poetry reading will be part of the event...