Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Band will hold a contest next week to find a piano soloist to perform Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" at the group's final performance, Aug. 10. Tryouts will be held at 7 p.m. July 26 in the Upper Common Room of the Union...
...miniature carbon-dioxide plant emitted a cloud of gas and strewed bits of Dry Ice on the floor. The gadgets are just a few of the ingenious devices that Colonel Frank J. Polich has built to help 10,000 soldiers each year understand the increasingly complex jobs they must perform in the missile...
...students, no science is more popular than biology-the first time around. Some 1,200,000 students take an introductory course in biology every year, but barely 2% come away with enough interest to take a second. Many educators think they know why: high school biology is fossilized. Students perform perfunctory experiments to prove points already memorized, poke away at frogs and recite by rote an endless, largely meaningless list of Latin names, learning little of the processes by which life exists on earth and which have fascinated man since the beginning of time. Says Biologist Paul DeHart Kurd...
What psychological sense the film retains from the Theodore White novel of the same name is waterlogged, if not drowned, by too much hokum and handwringing. The best moments are those in which the enlisted men, having no heroics to perform, slouch about coated with dust and disgust...
...heeded the advice of her Australian pianist husband, Richard Bonynge, began concentrating on coloratura parts and on the little-performed 18th century Italian bel canto repertory. Now, on the living-room wall of her Kensington home, Soprano Sutherland has a picture of one of her idols: Singer Elizabeth Weichsel Billington, reputedly the mistress of George IV, who almost singlehanded brought bel canto opera to popularity in England in the early 18th century. Joan Sutherland sees no reason why she cannot perform the same service in the 20th century. "I will be happy," says she, "if I can just sing...