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Word: auditorium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of Paris and the hub of the previous week's violence, bearded youths and miniskirted coeds sat in the courtyard singing occasional ribald songs against the Gaullist government. Now and then a jazz band struck up a tune or a pianist played an instrument dragged from an auditorium. With no police around, students even donned helmets and directed traffic on the Left Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: FRANCE ENRAGEE: The Spreading Revolt | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

...takes the uke from its old cardigan wrapper. Plink-a-plank-aplink. His thin, reedy tones soar into an unearthly falsetto, the vibrato voice quavering like a hummingbird's wings: "Come tiptoe through the tulips with me . . ." In the audience, as at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium last week, his listeners are rapt, incredulous, amused-everything but indifferent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: The Purity of Madness | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

CONCERTS in the Houses are generally notable for their charm and enthusiasm rather than their professional polish. Every once in a while, however, the tables are turned and a House offers musical fare in competition with and equally prestigious as that ordinarily scheduled for Sanders Theatre or Kresge Auditorium...

Author: By Robert G. Kopelson, | Title: Buswell and Valenti | 5/13/1968 | See Source »

...fanfare of trumpets, 99 bishops -90 representing the Methodist Church and nine from the Evangelical United Brethren-paraded into Dallas' Memorial Auditorium, followed by acolytes and delegates from the 52 countries where the two denominations have worked. Then Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke of New York City, representing the Methodist Church, and E.U.B. Bishop Reuben H. Mueller of Indianapolis clasped hands across a table and pronounced a declaration of unity. Massed in the hall, 10,000 members of the two denominations followed suit, joining hands and reciting in unison: "Lord of the church, we are united in thee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecumenism: Birth of a Church | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...diction of the huge company assembled in Robert Chapman's production of Ceasar and Cleopatra is the finest I have ever heard in the vault of the Loeb mainstage auditorium. Every word and phrase spoken is clear, and the balance of voices is carefully, even scrupulously, maintained. A technical point of this sort may seem a strange point of departure for more general praise of this staging of Shaw's ideological spectacular, particularly since such matters as diction are always more notable for their lack than their presence. But the virtue of this Caesar and Cleopatra lies in the words...

Author: By Peter Jaszi, | Title: Caesar and Cleopatra | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

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