Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just how much damage had been done? As Bing and his aides desperately juggled logistics, it seemed considerable, but far less than had appeared likely during the gloomiest weeks of struggle. Most of the star singers are available, but fitting them into an impromptu schedule will be a computer-size job. The delay has ruled out four fancy new productions: Herbert von Karajan's long-awaited Siegfried, Orfeo ed Euridice, Weber's gloomily romantic Der Freischutz, and a Russian-language Boris Godunov. But the Met's first week will probably open with Aïda and Leontyne...
...LAST time that the Harvard Band was arrested for disturbing the peace, New Haven residents were overly upset at the Band's impromptu parade through downtown New Haven at 3 a.m. on the night before the Yale game. That was in 1962, and since then, the Band has changed considerably...
...strange events took place in the wake of the occupation and bust last spring. One of the strangest was that all sorts of Harvard people began to learn, and to enjoy learning, about issues that really mattered to them. In colloquiums, in bull sessions, in impromptu discussions on the street, people worked together on touchy and pressing problems. The strike brought a sense of liberation; it was hard to resist the excitement and euphoria...
Ford held an impromptu press conference as the demonstrators filed out. He asked reporters if the marching was going on in other parts of the building and was told...
...Wyeths and has just paid $30,000 so that the house can be preserved and restored as a Wyeth museum. The producer and his wife paid a visit to Gushing to sign the papers, and Wyeth was so delighted that he and his wife engaged the Levines in an impromptu dance on the front lawn. Inside, Wyeth tore off a piece of wallpaper bearing his design for a new studio and presented it to his admirer. Grinning, he said, "Now you have...