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Word: conducting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Composer Igor Stravinsky has a fierce distrust of most conductors, especially those who try to conduct his own works. But last week Stravinsky, 76, sat in the balcony of Manhattan's Town Hall and watched benignly while a slim, intense man mounted the podium and launched the first U.S. performance of Stravinsky's most recent score-Threni: Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah. The conductor: Stravinsky's protégé Robert Craft, at 35 one of the world's leading interpreters of avant-garde music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Conductor of Moderns | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...ever accomplish the purpose they seek. True subversives, of course, will have no qualms about signing a loyalty oath, but loyal citizens who sign are then open to what the AAUP characterizes as "the possibility of perjury prosecutions resting on vague allegations or improper and intimidating inquiries about their conduct and their beliefs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Loyalty Oath | 1/16/1959 | See Source »

...resolution signed by the majority read as follows: "We can find no proof of dishonesty in the conduct of the Class Marshal election. We uphold its legitimacy and believe there is not sufficient cause for a new election." The signers were Alfred S. Arkley (Leverett), R. Dyke Benjamin (Marshal), George L. Damoose (Kirkland), D. Dwight Dogherty, Jr. (Dunster) Levon Kasarjian, Jr. (Winthrop), Marc E. Leland (First Marshal), J.R. Richardson, Jr. (Adams), and Richard E. Rubenstein (Alternate Marshal...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Class Committee Deems Marshal Election Honest | 1/13/1959 | See Source »

...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will conduct a composition contest this year, in addition to its annual concerto contest, Daniel M. Musher '59, vice-president, announced yesterday. Orchestral works with no solo instrument will be considered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orchestra Holds Two Musical Competitions | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...Japanese religions seem to tend towards the mystical, Dr. Hideo Kishimoto, head of the Department of Religious Studies of Tokyo University, said yesterday. "They have little to do with the social conduct and ethical principles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visitor Explains Japanese Faiths | 1/9/1959 | See Source »

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