Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against his shortcomings. On that account, the pharmacist's son-turned-statesman comes out deserving of the veneration he has been accorded. When historians decide, as is their wont, which men can be called "great"--which combine consistent articulation of ideals with a constructive and inspiring approach to the conduct of public affairs, Hubert Humphrey will justifiably be among them...
...four legally crucial dates, but were a tribe on four legally crucial dates, but were a tribe on two other dates. The confusing and contradictory decision proved a fitting ending to a trial ineptly-handled at best, and morally questionable at worst. The jury's verdict and the conduct of the trial bring into question the ability--and the right--of white men to evaluate the Indians' culture...
Ruth Claus, director of Yale's office of Summer Term Planning, said yesterday that the university might still be able to conduct a scaled-down summer program after this year. "This doesn't mean that Yale is going out of business for the summer term," she said...
...knack for reviving neglected works; of lung cancer; in New York City. Schippers was fond of saying that he wished he had been born a century earlier, but he made up for lost time. He started playing the piano at four. At 20 he was chosen to conduct the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Consul. He became Menotti's favorite conductor, a regular on the podium at New York's Metropolitan Opera, and in 1970 he was named music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra...
...power of television's eye persists: to the watcher, the visible thawing of the dour-looking Begin and the expansiveness of Sadat conveyed a compatibility that no communique could have made as credible. But consider the conduct of the three famous anchor people: each got an "exclusive" interview; whatever unseemly scrambling this required took place offscreen. On-camera, addressed chummily as Walter, John and Barbara, they deferentially answered back "Mr. President" or "Mr. Prime Minister," behaved like diplomats and asked soft questions, as if afraid their very questions might queer the peace. Confined to friction-free language, they repeatedly...