Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perfect. As airtight as possible, the resolutions had their theme best expressed in Article 22, which declared: "The principle that international conduct must be inspired by the policy of the Good Neighbor is the norm of international law on the American continent." This Good Neighbor diplomacy reached its peak at the Conference's concluding plenary session in Tiradentes Palace. Brazil's Aranha, scarcely able to control the excitement in his bass voice, announced to stomping, cheering crowds that Brazil, largest and strategically the most important of the South American countries had ". . . at 6 o'clock today broken...
...conclusion of Raymond Dennett's keynote address, round table discussions of social service problems will be held. Gerald Eisner '42 will conduct a session on Group Work and Robert C. Axtell '43 will lead a discussion on Rural Social Service. A round table on Speaking and Entertainment will be led by Joel M. Kane '43 and Bartlett Harwood...
Muscular, swart-tempered, turbulent José Iturbi last week did nearly everything he is good at, except conduct an orchestra or fly into a high Hispanic dudgeon. Gab-gifted, he spoke as a citizen-about-to-be on the Justice Department's I am an American radio program. A neat, nimble pianist, he gave one of his infrequent Manhattan recitals. A fledgling composer, he heard the first performance of his rambling, Spain-inspired piece, Soliloquy, in Cincinnati, then joined the Cincinnati Symphony in a crashing performance of the Tchaikovsky "juke box" piano concerto...
...Iturbi has been in the U.S. since 1929, has worked hard to get into big-league conducting (Ford Sunday Evening Hour, Eastman Rochester Symphony). One of his stunts has been to conduct from the keyboard, while playing a Liszt or Beethoven concerto. He enjoys periodic crescendos of rage (against jazz, hot dogs, flash bulbs, etc.), makes a point of being nearly late at concerts. He plays a Baldwin piano, and wherever he goes he is attended by a sort of caddy, supplied by the Baldwin people to look after the piano, piano stool, pianist. Plaintively the caddy says...
Soprano Djanel's Carmen was backed up as expertly as a debutante could wish: in the pit was Guest Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, who has been pulling opera performances together for 40 years. (He has been known to conduct from memory with no more preparation than a last-minute query: "What's the opera to night...