Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pews had been pushed aside to make room for the 90 or so chairs and music stands. Microphones arched overhead on long, angled booms. It was not the usual look of the West Ham Central Mission, a turn-of-the-century Methodist church in London's East End, but it has excellent acoustics and is sometimes used for recording sessions. Concertmaster Sidney Sax gave the signal for the orchestra to tune up. Then, from a double door, the frail, stooped figure began a slow walk to the podium, his right hand gripping a sturdy cane, his left...
...store of white caps he had kept in reserve in case the Reaganites flooded the floor with red and yellow hats to confuse the Ford floor operation. Nor had the Reagan plotters ever been able to unleash their "S.T.P." operation, in which any ruling from the chair that seemed unfair would be challenged by a "storm the podium" deluge of fist-waving protests and jeers, in an effort to turn the delegates against Ford's controlling convention officials...
...Wild a Dream proves that this ironic network Polonius was veri-fiably young once, a hard-edged radical and a complete stranger to the pundit's chair. First published 30 years ago, Sevareid's precocious autobiography was then compared with The Education of Henry Adams. It wound up around fifth on the bestseller charts, making the New York Times 1946 list of "Ten Best Books of the Year." Three decades later, young Sevareid's memoir does not seem quite in the Adams class. Yet it remains an important book with a new kind of timeliness...
...Richard Nixon-more to the point, the sins of those who condoned and even supported Nixon right up to the end? We have constantly surprised ourselves with the impact of Watergate. It reached deeper into our lives than anybody calculated. Just last week, before he went off to chair the Republican Convention, Congressman John Rhodes wondered whether "the American people might still be of a mind to punish Republicans at the polls for the sins of a Republican President no longer around." Rhodes said he found such a prospect "unfathomable" and concluded that if voters held current Republicans responsible...
...himself. For an upper-class lecture on the 18th century French philosopher Diderot, Rassias shows up in class in a blond wig, breeches and billowing shirt and proceeds to act out the emotional states that Diderot argued are unique to man. Rage, for instance, is depicted by heaving a chair across the room. Says Rassias: "If you want to teach, you have to be willing to walk out of class exhausted...