Word: podium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PLAIN, solid-thinking, no-nonsense Swiss engineer visits a drab, small-town cafe to make a speech in his campaign for the Swiss parliament. He stands erect at the podium with all of his bourgeois respectability, smoothly articulating his planned platitudes to a carefully selected, receptive audience. Midway through his speech the moderator calls for a break so that the listeners can refresh themselves with mugs of beer--on the house, of course. From behind the counter emerges a waitress carrying a tray of refreshments, and a striking entrance it is: tall and slender, with long black hair and deep...
...said that Edwin Panovsky's presentation. "Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character," given in 1947-48, was "most stimulating, a brilliant exposition of art history using the history of art to illustrate the history of ideas," Levin also said that Panovsky was an "electrifying scholar" at the podium...
After a half hour and another Stoogies flick I desperately wanted order. Assistant professor Paul Cantor (the Myths of Creation guy) was trying to speak and the area around the podium was littered with beer cans: halfway through every sentence deep voices would bellow "Shut up!" or "You suck...
...South End, on the second floor of a crumbling brick building. It's an old office, dim with scuffed linoleum floors and paraphernalia all over the walls. Most of the space in the office is taken up by a large room filed with folding chairs that face a podium...
...either side of the podium are portraits, one of George Washington and the other of Jesus Christ, and two flags, one American and the other the Cooks' special flag, which has crossed knives and forks on a white background. There are commemorative pictures covering the walls, all of them old and chronicling various union events through the years, and photographs of all the U.S. presidents since the local started, except Richard Nixon. There are two photographs Stefani takes special care to point out to a visitor: one of his son posing with a cake that won a culinary arts contest...