Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obsessive security measures that surrounded a major function of U.S. democracy with the air of a police state. A bitter but rational argument about the Vietnamese war was traumatically translated into street battles between protesters and police. Nominees and other speakers spent valuable time condemning or justifying the conduct of Mayor Richard Daley's heavy-handed cops...
...volunteers had tossed smoked fish, ashtrays and beer cans at the helmeted cops below. With neither evidence nor search warrant, they clubbed McCarthy campaign workers. One cop actually broke his billy club on a volunteer's skull. Daley stood by his angry defense of his cops' conduct against the "terrorists," who, he snarled, "use the foulest of language that you wouldn't hear in a brothel house...
...emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and finally to the Habsburgs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Czechs and the Slovaks were perhaps the first people in Central Europe to develop a sort of natural identity, and their first weapon was religion. They won from Rome the right to conduct their religious services in Slavonic in the 9th century. Partially as a result of this independence, the Czechs started the Reformation 100 years before Luther. The revolt was led by Jan Hus, who called for a reform of the Catholic Church and encouraged laymen to participate in the sacrament...
Ever since that day in 1943 when Bruno Walter very nicely got the flu and I had to step in and conduct the Philharmonic, this age thing has changed. At that point, anyone in his 20s or 30s was just laughed at. It all begins much earlier now. There's something else. A conductor is no longer just a man who leads an orchestra. His job includes an educational function, a community leadership function, an institutional responsibility, the setting up of patterns and models that can be followed by other orchestras, and it involves a very complicated...
They are also planning a strong assault on the platform committee in order to get an unequivocal antiwar plank calling for an end to the bombing of North Viet Nam and a repudiation of past U.S. war policy. The committee will conduct morning-to-midnight hearings for six days this week in an effort to write the party doctrine...