Word: podium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here Bulganin, dressed in a pale grey summer suit, drew back slightly from the carved oak podium. In the box behind him, where sit the top committeemen from whom others take their cue, someone laughed. Others joined, and a gale of laughter swept through the white and gold chamber...
...Russians quickly realized their mistake: in the eyes of the world, disarmament is no laughing matter. Next day Bulganin made a surprise reappearance at the podium. He complained that his statement about the unworkability of the Eisenhower proposal had been widely misunderstood in the world press, for the Russians were considering it "in all seriousness...
...Woof! Woof!" said André Kostelanetz' score. "Woof! Woof!" yelped a pretty young lady as the conductor gave her the cue. Then Kostelanetz turned gracefully away from Washington's National Symphony Orchestra to a man standing in front of the podium, who promptly let fly across the stage with a bowling ball and scored a clean-and noisy-strike. Kostelanetz beamed at the rumble and thud. A few minutes later the music sped up to sound like a bustling city: a rescue-squad man started a wailing siren, a park policeman astride his motorcycle to the right...
...first rehearsal last week, Conductor Kostelanetz bounded off the podium and congratulated rotund Composer Grofé. "You really started something," said Grofé. Actually, whether the result was more effective as music or just enthusiastically collected noise, it was "Kosty" himself who started it. For seven years he has dreamed of channeling the Hudson musically, last fall commissioned Grofé in New York City. Grofé read a book about the river, recalled some river lore of his own (at six months he rode an Albany boat for two weeks to escape an epidemic on the Lower East Side...
...teaching at Portland's Presbyterian Lewis and Clark College, where as many as 70 students brave his celebrated sternness to play in his student orchestra. One reason: beneath the rigorous vigor lies a puckish streak that relieves the direst stress. For example, Sirpo was once felled on the podium by a minor stroke, and somebody shrieked that he had been shot. As the cops arrived, he regained his speech and muttered solemnly: "My wife did it." On another occasion, the Sirpos had just moved into a house that was supposed to be haunted. Sure enough, ghostly sounds wakened...