Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with that they are educating some children--however small the number--who would otherwise have been destroyed by an oppressive system. More important for the long run, they feel they are making valuable experiments with new methods of education--a service which public schools have long since ceased to perform. Finally, they claim to be perfecting models of ghetto community schools which can be adapted to public systems, if and when the musty corridors are opened to fresh...
...seriously took up music only five years ago. A native of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she casually began playing the ukulele at 20, while an art student at Calgary, and drifted into folk music. In Toronto, she worked as a salesgirl to earn the $140 union fee so that she could perform in city cafes. Success was still out of sight when she met, married and eventually was divorced from a folk singer named Chuck Mitchell in Detroit. Meanwhile she had taken the first step out of oblivion by starting to write her own folk-styled songs...
...Peter Principle" states that "in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence; the cream rises until it sours." People who show competence are promoted whether or not they are qualified to perform competently at the next level. Eventually they go beyond their limits, become incompetent, and stop getting promoted. Macbeth, a success as a military commander, rose to become an incompetent king. Which is to say, "nothing fails like success...
Unified Parishes. The proposed government of the united superchurch would be both hierarchal and democratic, with three orders of ordained ministers: bishops for district, regional, and national office, presbyters to lead parishes and congregations, and deacons to perform special ministries and other duties. Existing churches of the various denominations would be arranged in unified "parishes," the better to utilize available space and talent. Such parishes will be intentionally multiracial, and thus not necessarily geographical entities. A national assembly, with the laity receiving a bloc vote along with each of the ministerial orders, would decide matters of faith and order...
Athol Fugard's The Blood Knot came out of South Africa eight years ago. It was first produced in Johannesburg in 1960--its black and white actors had to be called "guests" to perform together in the theatre workshop. Blood Knot ran off-Broadway in 1964; with half of its two-man cast unchanged, it is now presented by the Theatre Company of Boston...