Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appear several times this year in Symphony Hall with the Boston Symphony. Toward the end of November a repetition of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis," one of the last year's big successes, is scheduled. April 28 has been set as the date for the Bach "Mass." Dr. Koussevitsky will conduct both works...
...officials, mayors, sheriffs, Rotary, Kiwanis, etc., made it quite clear that if a carnival could not display A.F.A. and A.F. of L. insignia it was because "it permits gambling, indecency, immorality . . . or is unfair to organized labor." Consequently, instead of resisting unionization, carnivaleers were anxious to get the good-conduct badge that A.F.A. membership carried, and the union found itself in the dreamlike position of being able to pick and choose which shows it would deign to organize...
...controlled Shelby County, clearly indicated their repudiation of Senator Berry and Governor Browning. Pluralities of 86,000 and 74,000, respectively, were returned for the Crump-McKellar candidates, Lawyer Arthur Thomas Stewart of Winchester and Lawyer Prentice Cooper of Shelbyville. In politically amoral Memphis the Crumpsters could afford to conduct themselves so that there was nothing amiss for the Senate watchers to see. In the Crump precincts, normally delivered practically in toto to Crump candidates, Governor Browning was allowed to poll 9,000 votes against 56,000 for Lawyer Cooper, Senator Berry 6,000 against 64,000 for Lawyer Stewart...
...early stages of a science, the classification of its subject matter is a necessary job. Dr. La Piere divides collective behavior into several categories: institutional, conventional, regimental and formal (marriages, funerals, military organization and conduct, etc.); congenial (recreation); audience behavior; exchange (economic) and politic (political); nomothetic (behavior in regard to law); and such "escape" types of group behavior as panic, revelous, fanatical and rebellious.† By "revelous" behavior. Dr. La Piere means all kinds of revelry which serve to discharge tensions accumulated in day-to-day living-harvest festivals of peasants, New Year's celebrations in cities, orgiastic dances...
With regret I have to tell you that I have resigned because of irreconcilable differences of opinion with Mr. Pulitzer as to the general conduct of the paper, and am leaving the office Aug. 13. 1 recognize and respect the rights and responsibilities of ownership and make no complaint...