Word: podium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate. The demonstrators had come early and taken the seats immediately surrounding the Bandstand, and that inner ring looked like the floor of the Democratic Convention, a sea of signs. The biggest was a bedsheet ten feet square that had been hoisted aloft right opposite the candidate's podium and read George Wallace Your Friendly Fascist...
Hanging Walls. Among modern architects, Mies has always been considered the great classicist. It is thus no surprise that the Berlin museum bears a marked resemblance to a classical temple set upon a giant podium of granite-covered concrete. The podium, or semi-basement, is occupied by the burgeoning permanent collection, but the upper gallery, designed for special exhibitions, dominates the museum. It is simplicity itself: a glass-curtained box with a 213-ft.-square roof upheld by only eight burnished-steel columns. Mies has carried out his concept with subtlety. The columns, for instance, are tapered ever so slightly...
...happened often during the week in such situations, an official on the podium flashed a signal to the 50-piece Lou Breese orchestra to strike up some noisy numbers to drown out the chants. In this case, with stunning inappropriateness after a debate on bombing, it was the Air Force's song, Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder. The band ripped into Happy Days Are Here Again in the midst of a somber passage on Viet Nam during Humphrey's acceptance speech...
CAMPAIGN '68 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION PREVIEW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). CBS's preview has Walter Cronkite as anchorman, Roger Mudd and Eric Sevareid as analysts and Mike Wallace leading a team of six reporters. Harry Reasoner covers the podium...
...Disagreement. Both Governors were gracious losers, with no complaints and no excuses. Stepping to the podium as soon as the result was clear, Reagan asked the convention to declare itself "unanimously united behind the candidacy of Richard Nixon for President of the United States...