Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curtain raiser-a new Wolfgang Wagner production of Tristan und Isolde-all ears were sharply tuned to the sounds coming out of the concealed orchestra pit. There Conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, at 34 perhaps the most gifted German conductor to emerge since Herbert von Karajan and the youngest ever to conduct at Bayreuth, was making his most important operatic debut...
...accomplishments at Aachen have brought Sawallisch permanent bids from the Berlin Municipal Opera and from Hamburg (he has not made up his mind) and invitations to guest-conduct most of the great orchestras of Europe. The Vienna State Opera and the San Francisco Opera both want him as their guest. And in Germany he has built a personal following so rapidly that last year the Berlin Philharmonic did not even bother to advertise his sold-out guest appearances...
...display and in tone--on both political sides, but preponderantly in the pro-Republican direction. He concluded that, "with the possible exception of the New York Times, all papers--both Republican and Democratic--showed evidence of favoritism in their news columns in violation of their own accepted rules of conduct," and that "almost every example of favoritism in the news columns coincided with the paper's editorial feelings." This "would indicate that over 80 percent of the nation's newspaper readers may be getting their editorials with some Republican flavoring...
...came just a few days before the anniversary; the government announced that it had been holding 14 Egyptians in jail since April for plotting the dictator's assassination. According to the Information Ministry, a group of officers, ''cashiered for reasons connected with their military conduct" in last November's Anglo-French-Israeli invasion, planned to break in on a Cabinet meeting, bump off everybody, and install a civilian regime headed by Mohammed Salah el Din, 55, Foreign Minister in the last Wafdist government, before Nasser's 1952 revolution...
...sharp-tongued crusader, Dr. Schmidt was a dedicated foe of the nice-Nelliness that long hampered treatment of venereal disease, set up the first genitourinary clinic west of the Alleghenies. When he accepted support from an organization that advertised publicly, he was charged by the A.M.A. with unethical conduct and was expelled (1930). He countered bitterly that organized medicine was against low-priced medical care, was backed by half a dozen other medical societies, eventually (1954) was readmitted by A.M.A. He was widely credited with inspiring laws requiring prenatal and premarital tests for syphilis...