Word: podium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...completely lost in a few weeks." Rating the chances of saving Laos from Communism at "one in a thousand," the moody prince then departed for a rest on the Riviera. Most of the other big names, including Dean Rusk and Andrei Gromyko, had got away even earlier, leaving the podium to Red China's Foreign Minister, Marshal Chen Yi. He warned that the agreed goal of Laotian neutrality applied only to "international" matters-Laos could not join military alliances, but within the country, Communist forces should be perfectly free to harass any government or take it over...
...incited an audience to riot. Last week, concertgoers at Manhattan's Town Hall did little more than wince, or cringe in their seats. When the last cataclysmic sound had died away, they gave a standing ovation to the sturdy, craggy-faced composer who made his way to the podium. At 75, Composer Edgard Varèse (rhymes with fez) was finally receiving the acclaim he deserves as the U.S.'s Grand Old Man of electronic music...
HARVARD GLEE CLUB AND RADCLIFFE CHORAL SOCIETY will swell the ranks of the BSO for the Boston's performance of Gabriel Faure's Requiem. The program also includes Bruckner's To Deum and an Adagio from his string quintet; Charles Munch returns to the podium. Symphony Hall; 2:15 P.M. (Repeat performance SATURDAY...
There was the time when he became so elated at a New York Philharmonic rehearsal that he fell off the podium into the second violins. "Podiums," he said, picking himself up with a lordly air, "are expressly designed as a conspiracy to get rid of conductors." Or the time Fritz Reiner congratulated him on "a delightful evening spent with Mozart and Beecham." "Why," came the reply, "drag in Mozart?" Or the time he was visiting as an honored guest in Mexico City and was asked his opinion of the regular conductor of the Mexico City Opera. "You know what...
...podium, the short, dignified man with the spiky beard would kick, lunge, shout and. in moments of intense excitement, occasionally throw his baton...