Word: performance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe that if you don't go 100 per cent of the way out at practice, you can't perform 100 per cent of the way during a game," she said...
...came here knowing that my performance wouldn't count for credit, and I didn't expect it because this isn't a conservatory," says Roy Kogan '80, a music concentrator who frequently performs on the piano. He also points out that students can concentrate in music and take music 180r, a seminar in performance and analysis. Furthermore Harvard provides more of an opportunity to perform than a conservatory, Kogan says. It's ultimately a matter of balancing the pros and cons of practicing the arts at Harvard. After you do that, simply realize that you have no choice...
...about 15,000. Some work closely with doctors in special units of hospitals or in offices. Others, particularly in rural areas, where physicians are scarce, practice virtually on their own: for example, Eleanora Fry of Horseshoe Bend, Idaho, who operates a clinic in a town of 500. Often they perform services once exclusively the preserve of physicians: physical checkups, reading X rays, ordering lab tests and prescribing medications for complaints, such as vaginitis and hypertension...
...Grimes Poznikov, who plays trumpet from inside a 6-ft. canvas box and bills himself as the "automatic human jukebox," rates cities by numbers: 14 for Seattle, 22 for New York, and so on. The numbers are his estimate of how many minutes a street musician can perform before getting moved on for soliciting or creating a disturbance. Cops, like rain, are a prime occupational hazard. Boston Licenses its performers for $10. Other cities give the police wide discretion to act on complaints about noise, or to play music critic...
...more truly on their own than they ever dreamed possible. Sometimes their fate is terrible. In A Distant Episode, a linguistics professor studying North African dialects stumbles foolishly into the hands of a gang of marauding nomads; they cut out his tongue and then teach him clownish tricks to perform at their revels. Other interlopers get gentler treatment. In Pastor Dowe at Tacaté, an ineffectual missionary is driven away from an Indian village by an act of generosity; local custom obliges him to accept a villager's seven-year-old daughter as his wife...