Word: conduction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...method is to let fly now at chicanery and now at sham, and in between to go in for shenanigans. The central figure is an egomaniac orchestra conductor who, from shattering his musicians' fiddles and his trustees' feelings, can hardly find an orchestra to conduct. On one side he is Blanked by a shameless manager who ten times a day tries to save the day with desperate lies, on the other by a wife who once saved it through charm. Now separated from the maestro, she wants a divorce so she can marry someone else; the litch...
THIS YEAR MY HUSBAND HAD THE GREAT HONOR TO CONDUCT A SPECIAL CONCERT IN THE VATICAN, OFFERED TO THE POPE BY THE ITALIAN RADIO-TV. THE POPE CHOSE THE MUSIC HE LOVED MOST, INCLUDING BEETHOVEN'S FIRST SYMPHONY. HE REQUESTED TO HEAR THIS SYMPHONY JUST BEFORE HIS DEATH...
...gave his personal guarantee of safe conduct to the representatives of the Algerian National Liberation Front--leaders of the four-year-old rebellion...
Managers at Harvard do an enormous amount of work for the University's athletic program. Their task is "to conduct the team's business to such a degree that the players and coaches are entirely free to concentrate on the competition...
Speaking for his motion to make the Band one of the five recommended charities, Lionel B. Spiro '60 noted that the organization had suffered "quite a big loss" in the recent fire which destroyed part of the Band's music. The Band, he said, is not able to conduct a drive to raise the money to offset its loss, due to a possible conflict with the Program for Harvard College...