Word: podium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been born a century earlier, but he made up for lost time. He started playing the piano at four. At 20 he was chosen to conduct the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Consul. He became Menotti's favorite conductor, a regular on the podium at New York's Metropolitan Opera, and in 1970 he was named music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra...
...conference was run with more efficiency and dispatch, more zest and panache than most conventions dominated by men. There was an infectious mood of ebullience that made women open, communicative and tolerant of slights. Never far out of camera range, stalking the podium like some watchful mother bear anxious for her brood, Bella Abzug mellowed considerably for the occasion. She even joked about the Congressman who scoffed that the girls had gone to Houston for boozing and carousing. Abzug's zinging putdown: "I have attended many meetings, but I have never heard any women ask for call boys...
...majority as the other resolutions. Lesbians in the galleries roared their approval: "Thank you, sisters!" Pink and yellow balloons were released with the message WE ARE EVERYWHERE. The Mississippi delegation, which included six men, who had been elected along with the women, rose together, turned their backs on the podium and bowed their heads as if in prayer...
...Washington could claim to have foreseen, much less suggested, Sadat's spectacular gesture. Word of his willingness to go to Jerusalem caught the Administration utterly by surprise. When Sadat stepped on the podium in the Knesset to deliver his speech, Jimmy Carter's chief troubleshooter for the Middle East, Cyrus Vance, was airborne at 30,000 ft. off the coast of South Carolina heading for a long-scheduled visit to Argentina...
Sadat was applauded both when he walked to the podium and when he finished his address?almost unprecedented in the Knesset. His insistence on full return of the occupied territories chilled the atmosphere somewhat, but there was no abrupt foreshortening of his schedule. Later in the day he met with members of Israel's opposition parties and had a working dinner with Begin at which more substantive issues were discussed than the speeches covered...