Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arturo Toscanini himself is expected to go to Italy for the summer. Whether he will return to the U.S.-or whether he will ever conduct again-nobody knows. But his 68 years on the podium are already a legend. Wrote New York Times Critic Olin Downes: "Should this have been his permanent farewell... his name will remain supreme and his achievement immortally revered. There has never been a more gallant and intrepid champion of great music, or a spirit that flamed higher, or a nobler defender of the faith...
Psychological Warfare. In Albuquerque, Air Force Sergeant David Snow was charged with disorderly conduct after he quarreled with his girl friend, mimeographed her love letters, distributed them to her classmates in high school...
...Club and Choral Society are so abundant that one almost takes them for granted. But last night their precision, vitality and complete immersion in the music set even higher standards. Perhaps their superlative performance was inspired by G. Wallace Woodworth, Davison's successor, who left a hospital bed to conduct them. Or perhaps it was their own tribute to the man who, retiring this year, is responsible directly or indirectly for their every success...
...lack of excitement aboard the Windrush was definitely the decisive factor in the rescue, Albion said. He praised the conduct of Capt. W. Wilson, "a competent officer who took control of the situation during the first critical moments" and prevented any possible panic...
When the returns began coming in, however, the authorities recoiled in alarm. Count after count showed non-Communists beating out Red candidates, and the Party considered some of the winners positively dangerous to the proper dialectical conduct of the union. Abruptly, the East German trade-union secretariat broke off the balloting. Reasons: "infiltration of class enemies . . . carelessness . . . political mismanagement" of the elections-in brief, too much freedom...