Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everyone had been in Chicago last summer. They tried to surround the auditorium where the Democratic Convention was going on. They had little to lose. They were going to jail anyway, they said. One of the troops fired, and there was a riot. The black neighborhood exploded. That was Chicago. Everyone was in Chicago last summer. But now it is fall, and Chicago is gone...
...Fulton, Mo., that Winston Churchill first used the term Iron Curtain, in a speech there in 1946. But to the members of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, 100 miles east of Fulton, the really troublesome iron curtain was the one that divided the massive Kiel Auditorium into two parts: a symphony hall on one side and a sports arena on the other. Once, Pianist Andre Watts, playing a concerto with the orchestra, heard a strange noise. "I thought something was wrong with the timpani," he said, "but it was only applause for a basketball game on the other side...
...King is dead," actress Melina Mercouri said last night after a concert sponsored by the Greek Students of M.I.T. at Kresge Auditorium. "His countercoup was a farce...
...awoke next morning to see a base camp that was probably the best the Viet Cong had to show. He shot footage of dormitories for the guerrillas, a third of whom are women these days, a school, a laundry, an underground kitchen, an infirmary. At the camp's auditorium, he watched song-and-dance acts as well as movies. For refreshment, there was a daily delivery of U.S. beer from Saigon...
Find the right sport to hang a fragile abstract painting (18 x 18) against a wall, out of direct sunlight, not in a dining hall. It must be in a Harvard building, in a secure public place, other than the Carpenter Center Auditorium or Student Lounge at William James. Suitable prize. Henry Berg. x2378...