Word: podium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four years after the victory, Rodriguez edited the party daily Hoy, always seemed to turn up close to Castro on the podium at important functions, outranked only by Little Brother Raul, Che Guevara and Bias Roca. In 1962 Rodriguez took over from Fidel as agrarian-reform director and boss of the island's sugar industry-in effect Cuba's economic czar. As Cuba's econ omy continued to fall apart and Castro's relations with Moscow cooled, Rodriguez lost some of his power-over the fishing industry, water resources, and finally the whole sugar industry...
...wider, painfully topical relevance is Tippett's skillful weaving into the score of five Negro spirituals, after the style of a Bach chorale, that were sung last week by the magnificent, 232-voice Philharmonic chorus. Tippett, a lean, Lincolnesque figure who looks half his threescore years on the podium, seemed to inspire rather than instruct the ensemble in his brooding, hauntingly compassionate music...
Only once did Piatigorsky accept an offer to conduct. "Half dead from rehearsals," he recalls, he mounted the Denver Symphony podium and to his horror was informed that he first had to conduct the national anthem. "Somewhat bewildered, I gave a sign to the drummer and let him go on for an unreasonably long time. Majestically I raised my hand for a crescendo, and only when it reached its peak did I recall the national anthem." Returning to his cello, he found it like "a piece of furniture I had never seen before . . . Its import seemed pale in comparison...
...that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way." Often, with inexplicable timing, Johnson allowed a benign smile to crease his face during passages not requiring a smile-an unsettling podium quirk that he resorts to, apparently, whenever he gets a notion that his audience may feel he looks too stern...
...henchman of King's spoke recently at a rally composed largely of more militant Negroes. When he had finished, one of the audience strode to the podium and shook a fist in his face. "You Tom. All you want to do is make Mississippi like North Carolina!" "What the Hell do you mean--"the speaker shouted back. And then he stopped. He knew the man was right. That's exactly what he wanted...