Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this date, the Vietnam war, the rise in urban violence, and Lyndon Johnson's idiosyncratic conduct as President appear to have split the party into three new wings...
Charming, schmaltzy, waltz-prone Vienna flips for charming, schmaltzy waltz-prone Leonard Bernstein. In 1966, he conducted a rousing Falstaff at the Staatsoper, and last year he presented Mahler's Second Symphony, in a performance that seemed more authentically Viennese than anything since the days of Bruno Walter. Then, last week, there was Lenny again, preparing to conduct that most Viennese of operas, Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. He professed to be terrified. "Every Vienna taxi driver knows Rosenkavalier as well as he does the national anthem," said Bernstein, adding with a little Viennese exaggeration...
...posters, a jukebox, and pilfered street signs. Sessions for high school students are held three nights a week, from 7:30 to 9 o'clock; junior high students meet in the afternoons. The curriculum is as unconventional as the surroundings. Instead of following a standard Catechism, the brothers conduct freewheeling discussions on four basic human themes: "Self," "Relations with Others," "Relations with God," and "The Future...
...capitalize on this situation, candidate McCarthy has commissioned the Coalition for McCarthy under Justin L. Wyner to conduct a Republican write-in campaign for him. If successful, it would be a strong show of bipartisan support for McCarthy...
...Milgram experiment was clearly deceptive, and the subjects were hardly competent to give their informed consent. Yet, the experiment was conducted. No proposal like this has ever come up before the Standing Committee. Six of the 12 committee members were asked whether Milgram could conduct his experiment today at Harvard. Of the five who felt they could answer, four indicated they would approve it, with firm qualifications about the selection of the subjects and their post-experimental handling...