Word: podium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exhibits A Through J. The next morning, looking almost relieved that contemplation was at last giving way to combat, Kennedy took the podium in the old Senate Office Building's Caucus Room, where John Kennedy had announced eight years before, where Eugene McCarthy had lodged his challenge four months ago. With him was Ethel, becomingly tanned from the ski slopes, one small boy attached to each hand and seven other children...
...front of them. He teaches that the conductor is "a necessary evil" who can be crucial to the preparation and rehearsal of a score but should be as unobtrusive as possible in performance. Frequently he quotes the ironical advice of Strauss, who was his mentor: "Go up to the podium and don't disturb the orchestra...
...culmination of 20,000 hours of labor over ten years. And to Peggy Fleming, 19, a raven-haired Colorado College coed, the effort was all worthwhile when she stepped onto the winner's podium at Grenoble last week and heard played The Star-Spangled Banner for the first and perhaps only time in the 1968 Winter Olympics. "This feeling," said Figure Skater Fleming, "can never be shared-even by the richest people...
Gatto will be the only non-Eli speaking at the dinner. Joining him on the podium will be Charles O'Hearn, representing the undefeated Yale team of 1923: Danny McGill, halfback on the 1956 club, and Mike Pyle, captain of the undefeated 1960 squad who is now captain of the Chicago Bears...
...York Philharmonic." To compound the offense, he added that New York's musicians "step over conductors"-thus expressing publicly what many young conductors feel privately: that the New Yorkers, while gifted, are also notorious for their supreme self-confidence and antagonism toward almost anybody who takes over their podium...