Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have all set up giant, equipment-laden trailers under the town water tower that functions as an antenna. A couple of dozen reporters flock around Press Secretary Jody Powell and Campaign Manager Hamilton Jordan, recording their every word as they conduct a "briefing" alongside the railroad tracks in Plains-even though to date they have provided only the most fleeting glimpses of the inner workings of the post-primary campaign. Afterward, reporters grumble to each other about excessive secrecy and "news management," and file stories soured by bitterness...
...conduct he chose Pierre Boulez, known for his readings of modern works but not particularly for his Wagner. He then approached Berlin's Peter Stein to be director, and the word around Bayreuth is that the irreverent Stein proposed a Ring cycle without music. Wagner's next pick, suggested by Boulez, was Chéreau, the current enfant terrible of the Paris stage, whose only previous ventures into opera were an iconoclastic Tales of Hoffmann in Paris and Rossini's L'ltaliana in Algeri at Spoleto. ("You should watch this young man," said Luchino Visconti, director...
...morale builder and teacher. At one point in the Ninth she holds her palm out as if to ward off the sound. "Piano. Piano. You know that young man will hold that note forever," she says, referring to James Levine, 33, music director of the Met, who is to conduct the full symphony. "I expect you to be as young as he is." A few measures later she is talking about one of the chorus' celebrated pianissimos. "Sopranos, listen to the tenors and just place the sparkling star gently above their sound. It should have a misterioso quality, just...
...says a complacent New York City police attorney. Yale Law Professor Joseph Goldstein believes the potential for improper police actions is inevitable as long as the defendant's criminal predisposition is the critical issue. Instead, he writes, judges should focus on "the appropriateness or offensiveness of the police conduct," with emphasis on disapproving actions "that would be criminal for the private citizen." Justice Felix Frankfurter agreed. "The crucial question," he said, "is whether the police conduct ... falls below standards, to which common feelings respond, for the proper use of Government power." But that was 1958, and Frankfurter was writing...
...determine if they contain organisms-will not keep long enough for all of the experiments scheduled. Even more vexing, Viking 2 is scheduled to arrive at Mars and go into orbit on Aug. 7. That will crowd the schedule of the Viking 1 lander, which will not begin to conduct its experiments until eight days after it lands. Each of the experiments requires an eleven-or twelve-day cycle, and if one of the experiments shows some promising results, it will have to be repeated twice more before scientists can state with confidence that there is life on Mars...