Word: podium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intent on proving that he could dampen fires as well as ignite them. More than 1,000 newsmen, diplomats and officials were perched anxiously on a sea of spindly gold chairs when at the stroke of 3 p.m. the raspberry-red curtains parted and De Gaulle lumbered to the podium, wearing a sober charcoal-grey suit and a dark striped tie. He gave the familiar wave to the crowd, heard the same gaggle of questions-some planted and some not-and then exercised his same royal prerogative of picking out only those he wanted to answer-just four in number...
...tempos. It can be antic, as when he pats the bottom of an Old Howard burlesque stripper in Boston, and reminds her that he will be reading his poems at Radcliffe. It can be a gallant agony of slow motion, as he disciplines drunken legs to march to the podium on his reading tours. It becomes the jabbing dance of the prize ring with Caitlin (Kate Reid), his wife and scarring partner, as their savage domestic infighting vividly creates the image of a marriage where words not only lead to blows but are blows. Kate Reid is shatteringly good...
...never wished to report Mr. Goodman's argument, a news story did that; nor was my chief complaint of his podium manners. My article was a personal Impression of the man; of the tensions between his ideology and his way of life. I did not bother to write of these contradictions because I fear the student's mind is waxen, but because the student longs for an adult to champion his cause and will overlook much when rendered this service...
Benjamin Britten began the celebration of his 50th birthday by conducting the London Symphony last September in a concert dedicated to himself. He took the podium again last week to honor his birthday with a performance of his War Requiem at London's Royal Festival Hall. Having given English critics the entire autumn to contemplate the significance of a birthday that in fact occurred in late November, Britten found himself still best described by two praiseful paradoxes. Though he has gained immensely in intellectual force over the years, he has lost none of his youthful high spirits and originality...
...musicians' ears ("We like to come to work now," says a flautist), but even with all the enthusiasm Krips has generated in San Francisco, he is making a late start at building a minor orchestra into a major one; at 61, he already has 42 years on the podium behind him. But in this, as in all matters, Krips is a mountain of good-humored assurance. "I am," he says fondly, "a builder...