Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back to conduct, after an absence of 34 years, was 78-year-old Pierre Monteux, who will head the Met's French wing (Faust, Pélleas et Mèlisande, Carmen) this season. Nothing about the new production startled him: "Everyone knows all of it, no? The music, it is très aimable. There can be no surprises...
With all the hesitancy of a schoolgirl on her first date, the British government last week prepared to embrace commercial TV. But before anyone's hair could get mussed, the government laid down strict rules of conduct in a white paper: 1) All TV stations accepting commercials must be owned and operated by a public corporation similar to the existing British Broadcasting Corp. 2) The new corporation will sell time to private companies, and they, in turn, may sell advertising. 3) The corporation has the right to examine all scripts in advance, to forbid the broadcasting of "specified classes...
Booras advised Fingold that the Corporation's plan to remove material from the Arboretum does not violate the terms of the Arnold trust. Dodge claims that Booras "disregarded the proper legal principles that should have guided his conduct," and will ask the court to order Fingold to begin suit against Harvard...
...that time, the trustees retained Halperin on the staff but severely censured him for failure to testify before a duly appointed Congressional committee and for his uncooperative attitude and conduct before the University's committee of review...
Naturally most Congressional committees have already drawn up regulations for their own conduct, but recent abuses and want of good sense and taste have shown the need for uniform authorized rules by Congress as a whole. Senate and House investigations presumably point toward some specific legislation, but with at leas three committee chairmen aiming at, and producing little but headlines, blanket restrictions are overdue...