Word: podium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trumpeters fluttered scarlet banners and golden tassels, struck up a martial air. Rain had canceled the air flypast, and Party Secretary Khrushchev, clad in a fawn raincoat and bright green hat, had stolen some of the show by escorting attractive Ekaterina Furtseva, a Moscow party official, to the podium. But now, after the trumpets, Zhukov, with all the pomp and ceremony which the occasion demanded, went to center stage to deliver the official speech...
...Yalta Papers (Contd.) Sir: The Yalta disclosures [March 28] should puncture the myth of F.D.R.'s infallibility . . . Any Democrat who tries to pin the tag "giveaway" on Ike's Administration should be laughed right off the podium...
Short (5 ft. 3 in.) and blunt, he strode to the podium, grey hair tucked behind his ears, coattails dangling rakishly below his calves. His first piece: a movement from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8 that had the Philadelphia cellos singing with a tone of thick-piled velvet. Then came the symphony, as prodigal with melodies as a bargain basement with wares, innocently loaded with hints of other compositions, but still characteristic and convincing. The concerto, expertly played by Harpist Nicanor Zabaleta, was paler, but it did have 'some gripping episodes, notably the haunting harp harmonics accompanying a string song...
...long blue spotlight dipped toward an lights dimmed, and a long blue spotlight dipped toward an entrance. A pause, the Garden erupted with shrieks of glee as a slickly-tuxedoed figure advanced onto the stage. "It's said another, "Is only his brother, George." George stepped onto the podium, the orchestra blared a crescendo and this time even the initiates let loose as the spotlight picked up another tuxedo. All over the arena, carefully-concealed flashbulbs pulsed with white light...
With 95 musicians assembled on the stage of Carnegie Hall, there was the usual hush which precedes the appearance of the conductor. But no conductor appeared. The excited audience witnessed an all-but-unheard-of spectacle: the big orchestra began to play to a full house and an empty podium. The group was Arturo Toscanini's famed NBC Symphony, which NBC dropped last spring when the Maestro retired. Superbly trained, the men simply listened carefully to each other as they played, produced music that was perfect in balance, pure in articulation and movement. It sounded...