Word: podium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students were sitting down, some milled about the back of the hall or stood in the aisles. It seemed as if most of the news photographers in Boston were there scattered about the front of the room. There were four reporters from the CRIMSON standing by the podium, with a student who covers University affairs for The Boston Globe. A television cameraman shone a blinding light into the eyes of the students so he could more easily film the meeting. News was certainly going to be made. There was going to be a confrontation of forces, the Dean versus...
...then evade, to one in which you will let me ask you some questions." He then asked, in effect, for the Europeans in the audience to advise him on how to do his new job. For about a half hour, Kissinger, a symbol of American power, sat by the podium and diligently took notes while a German, a Frenchman and an Englishman tried to define the problems of U.S. foreign policy and offer some solution...
...19th century French Romantics, to which he brought a poetic vibrance of color and texture. Last year French Cultural Minister André Malraux hired him out of retirement to lead the newly formed Orchestre de Paris, and though his health was failing, Munch was determined to be on the podium for the orchestra's first American tour this fall. "My heart may suffer," he said, "but music never...
Although he also opposed Humphrey before Chicago, George McGovern refused to retreat into despond. After he and the remnants of Bobby Kennedy's doves were outvoted in Chicago, McGovern quickly joined Humphrey on the convention podium. And while preoccupied with his own successful campaign for re-election to the Senate from South Dakota, he managed to keep on good terms with all factions of the splintered Democratic Party...
Boulez, who lives in Baden-Baden, knows better than most conductors how the music of his own time should sound, since he himself has composed some of the best of it (Eclat, Le Marteau sans Maítre). When he takes to the podium, he brings along insight, evangelism, an insider's care, and the ability to get what he wants from an orchestra. This is why he has become one of the most sought-after guest conductors in Europe and the U.S. It helps explain why, in the space of only a few years, his recordings of Schoenberg...