Word: performance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston producers of Hair yesterday indefinitely suspended its performance and began to obtain the sanction of a higher court to perform the show again in its original form in Boston...
...Pageant Players-who will perform in the Quincy House Dining Room-helped to lead a vanguard in the radical theatre movement of the late '60's, when they united to present plays with a radical politico-cultural focus to the audience of the streets. They work in mime, sometimes narrated, with very little dialogue, relying heaily upon movement, sound, music, masks, and props. The troupe develops its material through collective improvisation-spontaneously generating new ideas to suit changing political environments-as their plays assume substantive significance in particular daily and geographic contexts...
...Painist Joseph Bloch, who has been hailed for his musical virtuosity throughout the world, will perform in an afternoon concert with an esoteric selection of the work of Seriabin and Haydn. In an evening recital. Miss Artmenta Adams-whose recent New York debut brought rave reviews to the young Julliaird School pianist-will play the work of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Swanson, and Prakofiev...
Such battle-tested national organizations as the N.A.A.C.P., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the National Urban League have long selected specific communities to score victories that could become pacesetting precedents or affect the national mood. As localism becomes more the core of the struggle, they continue to perform the vital role of keeping local communities from backsliding on integration of schools and public facilities, expanding voter registration, breaking white barriers against blacks in industry, training blacks for better jobs. Such leaders as the N.A.A.C.P.'s Wilkins, the Urban League's Whitney Young and S.C.L.C.'s Rev. Ralph Abernathy...
...Merilee sniffed odorless peace in this place of places, and Sam inhaled some too. In a rush Merilee knew it was right and they should come here. Alyosha massaged her throbbing toe, did his subtle ministrations to reduce the pain and told Merilee of a duty she had to perform. Young Stefan was staying behind when Alyosha and Deidre left to find the Tribe in Oaxaca and the boy would need someone to watch over him. "Stefan will be my parting gift to you," the Master said, his fingernails curling like smoke along the bones of Merilee's outstretched ankle...