Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pleased by his Paris success, Manno is even more excited by the treat he has in store for his 71-year-old uncle, with whom he lives in Venice. In Naples next fall, Manno hopes to conduct the first Italian performance in more than 20 years of Uncle Ermanno's The Jewels of the Madonna. Mussolini had banned it because, he said, its story of Neopolitan hoodlumism gave Italy a bad name...
...took the route marches of the famed "Van Doos" (the Royal 22nd Regiment) in stride, spent nine months in the lines in Italy, then almost a year in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Colonel Roy finished the war as chief Roman Catholic padre. Dispatches mentioned his "extremely courageous conduct"; he received the Order of the British Empire...
Religion. "Thirty-six percent spontaneously define religion in terms of beliefs, faith and God; 32% spontaneously define it in terms of conduct; 14% spontaneously define it by criticising it." Mass-Observation reports "a slight tendency" for more educated people to define religion in terms of belief and the less educated in terms of behavior...
...Chicago Symphony's new conductor, Artur Rodzinski, who longs to conduct opera as he once did in Europe, saw The Rape in rehearsal and went away excited. Said he: "The whole thing is very thrilling, full of new ideas. Britten has a very original language, which you can't compare to anything. Menotti you could say sounds like Puccini, but Britten is just Britten...
Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Divinity school advised approximately 500 graduating Seniors and 700 relatives and ends to conduct less personal introduction and begin to live when he delivered the traditional Baccalaureate sermon last Sunday afternoon in Memorial Church...