Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entertainment was not what the crowd had gathered for around the great brooding statue of Lincoln. Finally, the formal program began. Speaker followed speaker to the platform. Each was supposed to talk for four minutes. Each spoke longer than that -notably the United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther, who is also a vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and who clearly meant to convince the audience that he had had nothing to do with the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s decision to withhold endorsement of the march...
Lonely Island. Now to the platform came Singer Mahalia Jackson. First she sang a slow, sorrowful Gospel song titled I've Been Buked and I've Been Scorned. Her voice was marvelous, but her impact was more in her manner. Near tears, she moved her huge audience to tears. But in the very next breath, she would break into an expression of expectant happiness. When that happened, people who had been sobbing a second before began laughing, sharing in her expectancy...
...year-old University of Michigan freshman, seemed all arms and shoulders as he powered his way to a 2:08.2 world butterfly record over 200 meters. By the time the U.S. 800-meter freestyle relay team of Schollander, McDonough, Townsend and Saari crouched and sprang from the starting platform on the final day, a feeling of inevitability had settled around the race. Sure enough, the result was another world mark: 8:03.7. The overwhelming U.S. team margin: 63 points, to Japan's 22. And still there was no stopping the Americans: in Osaka, in what was supposed...
...said, "I've never been more delighted in my life." But that was the crest of his career. On the third roll-call ballot, the big-city Democratic leaders ganged up on him. Kefauver was whipped. He trudged into the convention hall, tried wearily to get to the platform to pull out of the fight. He was ruled out of order, sat down sheepishly to watch as the convention rolled on to nominate Stevenson...
Lewis Smith's gaudy, magnificent costumes would have been perfect in dance scenes, but they were splendid even without such exhibition. Donald Soule's sets, which used an apron stage and the Loeb's revolving platform for set changes, were flashy and adequate though a bit lacking in imagination...