Word: podium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public argy-bargy has persuaded Oregon's voters to keep him in the U.S. Senate-even while he performed his maverick metempsychoses from Republican to independent in 1952 and from independent to Democrat in 1954. This year for the first time, the professor very nearly lost his podium...
Primo Vannicelli, a government graduate student, said that since there had been no strong opposition in the faculty students were leaving the refuge of the lecturn for the influence of the pulpit, the podium, and the soap...
...advice to interpret Rosenkavalier "with one eye weeping and one eye winking." Thus while most Viennese conductors play down the rich orchestral part for the sake of the singers, Bernstein gave it new prominence, urging it on by jumping into the air and dancing on the podium to Strauss's three-quarter rhythms. And while he captured the elegiac bittersweetness that is at the very heart of the autumnal work, he freed it of the sentimental encrustations that Strauss never intended; as a result it was sharper, livelier, nobler...
...decor was strictly Kafka--a long rectangular room with five rows of chairs overlooking the speaker's podium. The dysentery-green walls stood in the glaring flophouse-yellow light. The room was completely un-ventilated and the old fan blew hot air into our faces insultingly. The stage was set for Sgt. Brown's treatise on Conduct and Effort...
...Irving Thalberg Award passed gracefully into the hands of Alfred Hitchcock, who marched forward to the tune of his TV theme, peered over the podium, and muttered a very British "Thank...