Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motion that was passed expresses the fact that the Faculty does not condone tactics of demonstration in this community which violate the civil rights of individuals. But as members of the Faculty who have been deeply impressed by the responsible and democratic conduct of our students on such occasions, for example, as the meeting in Lowell Lecture Hall on Monday evening, it seems to us urgent and proper to report our sense that among most of those present at our meeting yesterday there was a clear feeling that the issues raised by the protest at Mallinckrodt go beyond the matter...
...second instalment portrayed Harriet Tubman, the tiny but herculean conductor of the Underground Railroad, who never lost a passenger. Included was her gunboat raid into Confederate territory, making her, according to an official dispatch, "the only woman in American military history ever to plan and conduct an armed expedition against enemy forces...
...Objections arise only when they become so carried away by their conviction about the rightness of their cause and so impatient with civilized procedures that they seek to restrain the freedom of expression or movement of others who may not agree with them. This kind of conduct is simply unacceptable not only in a community devoted to intellectual endeavor but, I would assume, in any decent democratic society...
After George left this country, which was twenty years ago after being called a Communist and finding that the smart New York musical circles might tolerate a Jew but not a Negro, he came to Europe to conduct the great symphonies and operas. He studied under von Karajan then and now the foremost conductor in Germany, who wrote that George is hochbegabt, highly gifted, very fine praise indeed. I have seen this letter and one from Richter, the pianist, saying how much he enjoyed performing with George. Once the Emperor of Ethiopia come to Berlin and admired Geogre's work...
...world, free, not speaking English. But he was waiting for them all the same. Whatever happens George is over now, for all he wants is to marry a pretty girl and move to the South of Spain where he can run a small hotel and let the CIA conduct the symphonies of the world...