Word: podium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skewered a party given by Conductor-Composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife to raise a defense fund for the 13 New York Black Panthers just acquitted of conspiracy (see THE NATION). That widely publicized gathering last year proved to be a debacle for Bernstein-he was booed on the podium, picketed by the Jewish Defense League, editorially scolded by the New York Times, and flooded with hate-mail. Nothing daunted, however, the persistent Bernsteins last week gave another political party in their Park Avenue pad. This time, it was Catholic Chic: 125 guests (including Producer-Director Harold Prince, Composer-Lyricist...
...stepped to the podium to another standing ovation, and motioning the crowd to be seated, said that the applause was not necessary. After thanking Taylor for his introduction, he said, "I'm not here to cop any pleas about losing the decision to Joe Frazier. You can't take nothing from Joe Frazier. He's not skillful, but he's awful strong...
However, after introducing his wife Relinda. "the lady who trapped the King of the World." and calling her up to stand with him on the podium (because, he said, he had seen some men trying to flirt with her. He later warned them, "Boy, you'd rather be caught in Vietnam with a BB gun.") Ali made a clear distinction as to which black man can fight the best and why. He made a poetic predic-tion for the Frazier rematch, "... then Ali lands with a right, what a beautiful swing/ and the punch lifts Frazier clean...
...faced posturing when I think back to the 1969 graduation ceremonies. This was the year of the University Hall bust and SDS was expected to intrude itself one way or another into the ceremonies. But in a flanking maneuver the Administration decided to give the podium to an SDS speaker and thereby hopefully avoid an "incident." We radical sympathizers were looking forward to a hard hitting, well reasoned exposition of the issues, but instead, we got a wretched diatribe that turned the flanking maneuver into a highly successful full-scale rout. Before the speaker could finish hanging himself, however...
...Weinrub had chaired a meeting of about 60 persons who gathered before the lecture to propose various methods of making Land discuss Polaroid's business activity in South Africa. The proposed tacties ranged from a takeover of the podium to waiting for the question-and-answer period following the speech...