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...self-governing ensemble during his regular guest-conducting stints. Other possible contenders: Maazel, the Boston Symphony's Seiji Ozawa, Philadelphia's Muti and, farther afield, Leonard Bernstein, now a freelance guest conductor. What marks the new sweepstakes is the increasing desperation with which orchestras pursue the same handful of podium personalities. It is | not that there are too few good conductors, but that there are so few who meet the economic requirements: a hefty recording contract, a telegenic personality and the ability to pull in a crowd both at home and on the road. In the U.S. a conductor must...
...time Wright took to the podium, he knew that the vote of the committee, evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, was likely to be 8 to 4 in favor of finding some violations. The defection of two Democrats is not a mortal wound, but if the same percentage abandons Wright when the entire House votes, his hold on the speakership would be in peril. Democrats had been urging Wright to launch a pre-emptive defense. Says a House leadership aide: "We were being procedural nerds with our pants drawn up to the armpits saying, 'We have to wait...
...time when many Americans are frustrated and out of touch with the Washington elite--which many feel includes legislators and lobbyists, video news jockeys and journalists, talk radio has become the most vigorous medium for free speech, providing a podium and an audience to anyone who has a dime for a phone call. The nation needs muckrakers like Williams and his colleagues across the country to keep asking questions about where the country is headed and how it's getting there...
...Wednesday morning at 11 a.m., five hours before study cards were due, the professor of Literature and Arts B-25, "Rembrandt and His Contemporaries," walked up to the podium in the Fogg's Norton Lecture Hall and confronted an overflow crowd...
...jammed into a run-down 660-seat auditorium in the Cinematographers Union building in Moscow. Elderly men with flowing beards, their chests covered with World War II decorations, pressed against the walls while young activists scurried up and down the aisles distributing pink cards to eligible voters. On the podium sat a frail man, his bald head glistening in the light. Andrei Sakharov, 67, cleared his throat and began reading. "My political program has been formed over the years," he said. "Unconditional release of all political prisoners . . ." The crowd erupted in stormy applause...