Word: podium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Program, the University of Massachusetts students invited Senator Strom Thurmond to speak on any subject of his choosing. The idea, said the school, was to balance the great number of liberal speakers on the program and bring a "seldom-heard opinion" to the campus. As Thurmond stepped to the podium, seven students in white sheets and hoods moved up to encircle the rostrum. "Strom Thurmond loves burning yellow babies and starving black babies," read one of the signs they carried. A Thurmond comment on Viet Nam ("We'll have to fight elsewhere if we don't win here...
...lovely warm car." At a Berlin electrical factory, his audience took up a cry that turned around the "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!" chant of anti-U.S. students. "Ha, ho, hey!" they called. "Nixon is O.K.!" Nixon loved it, and jumped back onto the podium to reply: "Ha, ho, hey! Berliners...
...program, Available Forms I, which is scored for 18 wind, string and percussion players, is a Calderian example of what Brown calls "conceptual mobility." Each of its six pages contains five musical "events," which the instrumentalists play on specific orders from the conductor. In front of the podium is a numbered board with a sliding red arrow; the conductor moves the arrow to give the page and holds up one or more fingers to indicate the event he wants played. To Brown, a work like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is "closed form," meaning that no options to choose materials...
...President has a far more effective podium than any band of writers and academics, but Johnson rarely used it to good effect when the Viet Nam debate became virulent, or when the nation became confused and distressed over racial unrest. He might have survived the assault if he had earlier amassed a reservoir of popular confidence. This he had never really done. He tried to come across as the protean President, large in heart and body and energy, but that aura was not consonant with all-too-accurate stories of his pettiness, his bullying of aides, his unnecessary deceptions...
...gave a reading from his poems here a week and a half ago. There were about 150 people in Burr B when he arrived from dinner at the Signet. It may have been the incongruity of the room, the Delphic tiers of the lecture hall dwarfing the rough-hewn podium, or the poetry itself; somehow the evening was majestic and depressing, and reflective of what poetry has recently become: accomplished, public, ill-at-ease...