Word: chautauqua
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James Yannatos, presently musical director and conductor of the Youth Orchestra of the Chautauqua Institute, will succeed Swoboda next year. Swoboda is retiring from the Faculty in June...
...After. The Liberals had now been in office 22 years, and had become arrogant, tired and out of touch. Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was a kindly French Canadian, but ineffectual at 75. The nation began to listen to a new voice from the prairies, full of fire and Chautauqua rhetoric, John Diefenbaker, promising a fresh if vague "new vision" for Canada...
From the start, the Liberals had staked their campaign on the promise of "stable government," arguing that they were the only party capable of winning a majority. Diefenbaker, with his emotional Chautauqua-style campaigning, was conducting a surprisingly strong campaign. If he finished not too far behind Pearson, there was a good chance that Diefenbaker might insistently hang onto office even though he might have fewer seats than the Liberals. There was a convenient precedent: in 1926, with 101 seats, Liberal Prime Minister Mackenzie King nonetheless clung to power for a time though the opposition held...
Beginning five years ago, the ancient town in the green Umbrian hills of central Italy has been the annual host of Gian Carlo Menotti's vaunted Festival of Two Worlds. Primarily a cultural Chautauqua of contemporary music and modern drama, the festival seemed to need another dimension. Last year Giovanni Carandente, ebullient gadfly in Italy's slow-moving museum bureaucracy, and champion of Italian sculptors in the international art markets, met Menotti and suggested a sculpture exhibition in the streets of the town...
Knee-Deep in Arts. Opened in 1894, Culver owes its military hue to Founder Henry Harrison Culver, a prosperous St. Louis stovemaker, who for his health roughed it one summer on Lake Maxinkuckee. Culver soon zestfully launched a chautauqua, wound up with a military academy. He aimed to blend liberal and Christian education, using military discipline "because of its peculiar advantage in bringing out the best results in the development of boys...