Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outside music. Biographer Herriot describes Beethoven quarreling with his cook, showering her with vermicelli, taking over the kitchen work himself. He liked to walk but he gesticulated so wildly that children often jeered him. For the first performance of Missa Solemnis he stood in the pit. supposedly to help conduct. He was oblivious to the fact that the singers skipped the passages which seemed to them too difficult...
...eyes blazed. She tossed her bushy head this way & that, pointed vigorous commands to the singers on the stage. Ethel Leginska had good reason to make much of the music, because she had written it. Hers was the distinction of being the world's first woman to conduct her own opera in an important opera house...
...Bingham declared that it is un-sportsmanlike to allow political, religious and racial situations to interfere with the conduct of athletics. We agree with him fully; that is why we engaged ourselves in this fight to keep our athletes away from the German shores. "Politics belong in sports," says Bruno Malitz, and we shudder at the thought. We are afraid that should our athletes set foot on Nazi land they will be contaminated by the doctrines which have set books on fire and inspired racial and religious riots. We don't want them to come home to sow the principles...
...that legal action is completed in the Dunster House Assault Case, the College must conduct its own investigation to determine which students are subject to disciplinary action. While a false arrest and confused testimony have placed some of the implicated students in the position of martyrs, the Administrative Board must forget this largely unjustified sentiment. It must regard all cases as ordinary infractions of college rules and regulations...
...fifteen minutes in which to complete his complicated investigation of five people. His "anything you say will be held against you" attitude in dealing with George is uncomfortably reminiscent of the methods of the blustering sergeant. And this is the basis of his recommendation for George's arrest. His conduct of the case and his testimony in court are a disgrace to Harvard...