Word: podium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bigger battles. The member from Michigan, claiming that the inscrutability of the Spanish names had confused the Committee into perpetrating a great injustice, moved a revote. Brown, starting like a warhouse to the sound of trumpets, bellowed a point of order, and the wrangle began anew. Heselton took the podium and threatened to include Puerto Rico in the minority report, a threat which due to lack of time and the great bitterness on the Convention floor never materialized. This argument merged with another--something to do with motorcycle escort for Committee members to Convention Hall--and the Chair adjourned...
...contest's originator, the gentle- man from Massachusetts, gave up for the moment and awaited the nominee's selection. As the Convention's choice was an encouraging one, he held a meeting with Gabrialson and the five Puerto Ricans in a room beyond the podium to decide the dispute, a meeting which, as he put it, "damaned near drowned out the balloting for Vice-President...
...since the National Committeewoman from Puerto Rico was married to one of the Rump delegates, and then harrangued his colleagues on Gate's part in the deal--accusing the General Counsel of personally arranging yet another "steal." A bellow issued from the audience, and Gates himself marched to the podium. There, on a point of personal privilege quickly granted by the Chair, he defended himself passionately and at great length...
...whole works" and "massacring of masterpieces." He has shushed audiences for covert whisperings, or told them outright to shut up. Over an outraged shoulder, he has hissed at them as "savages" for untimely applause. He has locked the doors on latecomers. He has lectured and admonished audiences from the podium in picturesque and often vivid language. According to Sir Thomas, the British are "a race of barbarians" consistently guilty of musical "turpitude in the lowest degree"; Sheffield "is not civilized"; Belfast Corp. members are "intellectual thugs"; and Seattle is "an esthetic dustbin...
...conductor, he disdains a strict beat (and often any beat at all), breaks every known rule of his art and gets clean away with it. His florid, utterly unorthodox style, his physical grotesqueries on the podium are often taken as vanity or exhibitionism. Admirers prefer to think them the result of his notable freedom from conventional inhibitions. His range of gesticulation may be anything from a full, tense crouch to the subtlest nuance of fingertip or eyebrow. The result, however fantastic to the eye, is nevertheless a brilliant coincidence of musical sensitivity and bodily gesture which comes as an astonishing...