Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned her out. With her went her husband, Richard Bransten, her Hollywood collaborator and onetime Washington correspondent, under the name of Bruce Minton, for the New Masses. Printing the eviction notice, the Daily Worker accused the Branstens of "attacking the basic line of the Party . . . slandering its leadership." Their conduct, frowned the Worker, was "characteristic of petty-bourgeois radicalism . . . and ultrarevolutionary phrase-mongering...
...innocence abroad, even about the unpredictable political behavior of Americans, is possibly less than is supposed by some innocents at home. What perhaps shocked Europeans as much as the immediate political implications of The Speech was the complete lack of grand style in the official conduct of the world's No. 1 power. For greatness of responsibility implies greatness in performance...
When the Nazis ordered the Kulturbund to perform only in secluded synagogues, Steinberg took its best musicians to Palestine, where he and Polish Violinist Bronislaw Hubermann formed the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. Hubermann invited Arturo Toscanini to conduct the first public concert in Tel Aviv. Toscanini listened to a few well-rehearsed bars, nodded his approval and mumbled: "Molto bene [very good...
...Forty-eight Hours. The note ridiculed the Yugoslav contention that the shootings were "accidental." It demanded the immediate release and safe conduct to the border of all U.S. plane occupants still alive and permission for them to be interviewed by a U.S. representative. The ultimatum gave Yugoslavia 48 hours from the time of its receipt to comply with the U.S. demands...
Later Dunbar signed on as a war correspondent for the American Associated Negro Press, went ashore at Normandy with a Negro field artillery battalion, was the first foreigner to conduct a symphony orchestra in Paris after the liberation...