Word: performance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nonacademic traditions, such as freshman hazing. No longer do upperclassmen make a plebe stand at attention and jab at his breastbone until he passes out; gone are the impromptu push-ups and relay races through the endless corridors of the middie dormitory, Bancroft Hall. Plebes are still made to perform menial tasks for upperclassmen, but Calvert firmly maintains that harassment and degradation will not produce respect for authority...
When 30 Law School secretaries went on strike Wednesday, they were told that the time they missed would be counted as vacation time. On Thursday. Kelly Girls were hired to perform the secretaries' duties; yet most secretaries who participated in anti-war activities Thursday and Friday were given full...
...Boston Opera Company has achieved some tremendous successes. Its performance of Luigi Nono's Intoleranza several seasons ago was a major cultural event, and a source of controversy for many months. This week it will give the world premiere of Gunther Schuller's new opera. The Fisherman and His Wife . But now that the Back Bay Theatre has been torn down, the Company has to search hard to find a place to perform. This year's production of Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment had to be held in a hall at Tufts University in Medford. This effectively closed...
...auditorium. The next logical step would be some sort of assistance to an opera company, either in the form of an outright grant to some established private group, like the Boston Opera Company, or, more preferably, the founding of an official state opera, which would reside in Boston and perform a full season. Adequate financial support, and several years of development, would assure that the company would grow to national stature...
...relative isolation of college campuses. Since World War II, however, the government has become increasingly dependent on the intellectual resources of the American university to fuel that machine. The billions of dollars which federal authorities dole out each year to the nation's most eminent scholars to perform war-related research-not to mention the talent they avail themselves of in return-constitute an irreplaceable item on the government's yearly budget...