Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over his captors, "You men wouldn't be trying to kill my son, now would you?" ha-ha; the famous crop-duster scene in which a biplane machine-guns Grant; one scene in which Grant sneaks into an auction, and foils his pursuers by getting himself arrested for disorderly conduct; and the real cliff-hanger denouement on Mount Rushmore. Gasp. Eva Marie Saint is the woman, James Mason the heavy...
...denied Adams tenure, despite his overwhelming student support. Last spring, Dean Rosovsky established a student search committee composed of members of the Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Collegium Musicum to find a successor to Adams. After narrowing the field and inviting the frontrunners to Cambridge to conduct the three groups, the committee chose Jameson M. Marvin, who was then offered the position by the Music Department. Adams is presently studying conducting in Germany...
...with four years without women?" a fraternity boy asks. Just lately the faculty has stirred a certain amount of rage and despair in many a Big Green breast by urging the college to abolish its 22 fraternities on grounds that they are antithetical to academic progress, unhealthy for social conduct, as well as being noisy centers of alcoholic disruption and childish antics...
Another sour note in the Carter family week came when Gloria Carter Spann kept playing her harmonica in an Americus restaurant. Other customers complained. Police were called, vainly ordered the First Sister to stop, and finally arrested her for disorderly conduct...
Early in the 1960s Berg's publishers, Universal Edition in Vienna, quietly commissioned Cerha to proceed with the orchestration anyway. After Helene Berg's death at 92 in 1976, a genteel scramble ensued. Liebermann had a secret advantage in Boulez, long the publishers' first choice to conduct the premiere...