Word: podium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members and guests of the Poetry Society of America gave out a dithyrambic cheer of agreement as they presented the society's Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement to Marianne Moore, 79. Indeed, one member, Negro Poet Langston Hughes, was feeling so effusive that he followed Lowell to the podium to hymn "this wonderful and lovely lady." Marianne listened with a proud but astonished smile when Hughes, as a gag, pronounced: "I consider her the most famous Negro woman poet in America...
Gill's 1959 plan changed the structure of Ec 1 as well as the material it covers. In the old days Ec 1 lectures were strictly a star show-each of the Department's great men mounted the podium once and talked for an hour to the crowds below. Though continuity may still be lacking, the lectures under Gill's regime have a function. They come in blocks instead of being scattered sporadically throughout the term and the blocks give the course more structure than it once had by forcing section men to keep pace with upcoming lectures...
Like any canny producer, Karajan will also take his success on the road. Next fall, the festival production of Walküre, with Karajan on the podium, will play before American audiences at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...
...time is approaching when the instrumentalists of Powell's Music fall silent, and what is called for is a long, critical view of Powell on his podium. That "character is fate" is a cliché; the fate of Powell's characters is, like a capricious bomb, historical chance. There is really no sense in any of his creatures except their determination to make their folly explicit in their own words and actions. They live to die. Yet for many years to come, they will also live in the compelling echo of Powell's funereal dance...
...spectacle features Finley's distinctive double-clutch lecture shuffle: from the podium two steps to the left, a pause, an extension of the right foot accompanied by a sweep of the hand, a snap of the microphone cord, two steps back to the right, a resting of the right arm on the podium and a flourishing of the left arm in a classic pose. Some are amused. But by the end of the fall term, only 200 of the 500 students in the course were attending lectures...