Word: podium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presented him with a sapling to be planted on his small farm in New York State, where he spends each weekend tending his groves of trees. It was only appropriate, for Stokowski is something like the John ny Appleseed of symphonic music. In his nearly 60 years on the podium, he has cultivated more major orchestras and nurtured more young musicians than any other conductor...
...scare tactics keep the boys on their toes, and in the end, they make beautiful music together, pouring out the big, lush organ-like sound that is the maestro's trademark. While Stokowski's days as the glamour boy of the podium are behind him, the long slender hands still dance like birds when he conducts, the silver mane still shakes in splendid disarray, the great craggy profile still sparks a response. And as always, he still juggles the orchestra's seating arrangements to gain special effects, still edits Beethoven and Brahms to suit his own taste...
...network is behind all three others in Emmy Awards. This must not happen again. We must close the Emmy gap immediately. Therefore I have directed all vice presidents to turn their attention to this year's awards so that next year we can be up there on the podium getting ours. Remember the motto of this company: Neither be the first nor the last. Following are a few notes off the top of my head about last week's award program...
...Endicott Peabody forthrightly elucidating his foreign policy eyes ablaze with intensity stepping to the side of the podium? "What'll we do in Vietnam?... We'll perseverel" and thinking that he'd said something...
...negotiations with the National Liberation Front and immediate free elections in those parts of Vietnam controlled by the U.S. had a different problem. If Peabody was having trouble putting his words into thought. Adams struggled with the more conventional reverse difficulty. Uncomfortable during his speech, he clung to the podium, constantly tapping his finger on the wood, his ring glinting through a waterglass with more and more agitation as he searched for adequate words. He couldn't find them. All that came across were the honest, but cliched catchphrases. One admired his courage and regretted his inarticulateness, felt his emotions...