Word: command
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taught, but there is no doubt that the world of conducting has been robbed of some of its finest people. Who will take their places? At the moment, it is hard to tell. Most of the men taking over major orchestras today are young, perhaps too young to command the positions they hold. Pierre Boulez has reached the stage where he is ready to take over the New York Philharmonic, but Michael Tilson Thomas is, alas, too immature for the arduous duties which. William Steinberg's illnesses have forced on him at the BSO. Seiji Ozawa is starting to change...
Last year, there was only one man in this University who could walk into a crowd of demonstrators and tell a State Department official, "On the authority of the President of this University, I command you to get out of that...
...deadline was 10 p.m. E.D.T. on Saturday. The U.S. State Department, which set up a round-the-clock command post in Washington under Middle East Specialist Talcott W. Seelye, stayed in constant touch with its embassy in Amman. But a U.S. official who tried to drive out to the airstrip was turned back, and frequently diplomatic personnel could not even venture into Amman's streets...
...outcome. So, in the long run, do the financial fortunes of the company itself. One morning this July the conferees were vigorously debating the merits of three songs in a new LP album when President Clive J. Davis took the floor and picked one out in a firm command decision: "That's the song. Cut it as a single today and ship it tomorrow...
Islamic Zeal. In Libya, other foreigners also sense increasing hostility. The twelve-man Revolutionary Command Council, of which Gaddafi is the leader, last June closed down the giant Wheelus U.S. Air Force Base near Tripoli and British bases at Tobruk and El Adem in eastern Libya. Police stop autos driven by foreigners and question them at length. Cyclists display an alarming proclivity for sweeping close to pedestrians in Western clothes. Many British and American oil company executives are now concerned enough to send their families home. Enrollment in the school for foreign children in Tripoli is expected to drop from...