Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result of the Senate's action, Robben Fleming, chancellor of the Madison campus, agreed yesterday to hold an emergency faculty meeting Monday to discuss the draft. He said that two students would be allowed to attend the meeting and that the meeting's proceedings would be piped into an auditorium where other students could listen...
Articulate, lyrical, passionate, Scully gets so entranced in lecturing that he once stepped back in the dark, fell four feet to the auditorium floor, leaped back up, still talking. The lectures seem to be spontaneous drama; yet Scully spends a full day planning each of them, selecting as many as 100 slides and changing the course every year because "I'm not the same person I was last year." Frenetic and lonely, Scully's whole life is an explosion. "You ought to hear him give his description of Y. A. Tittle's last year with the Giants," says his colleague...
...didn't get an Oscar for her performance, but Mrs. Mamie Washington of Santa Monica is real showfolks. At 4:30 in the morning on the day of the Academy Awards, Mrs. Washington arrived at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium with her two babies-21 months and 9 months-and grabbed a front-row seat in the grandstands outside the door. Her vigil was relieved by her mother, who turned up periodically with nourishment and fresh diapers...
...description of my standing at the entrance to Boylston Auditorium turning away the Hum 4 students who tried to get in, my frail form alone interposed between the student and his damnation, pleases my sense of the dramatic, though it hardly satisfies the claims of truth. The film showing was open only to members of French 183; no guests were admitted--as simple as that...
Nice Applause. Gorky-born Ashkenazy is a kind of Volga Huckleberry Finn who has made good. He won the Queen Elisabeth competition at Brussels when he was barely 19, the Tchaikovsky Prize in Moscow at 25, and since then has stormed every important auditorium in the world...