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...last week of the Jewish year 5711, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, waxy-pale and dressed in funereal black coat and striped trousers, gravely strode to the rostrum in Bonn's Bundeshaus. Speaking for new Germany at its best, the 75-year-old Christian Democrat offered a measure of atonement for old Germany at its worst...
...material reparation problem in order to facilitate the way to a spiritual purging of unheard-of suffering . . ." At this point Richter, the neo-Nazi, stomped from the chamber. But when Adenauer finished his address, the rest of the Bundestag rose in a standing ovation. As Adenauer hurried off the rostrum, speakers for all major parties came forward to echo and endorse his sentiments. All, that is, but the Communists...
Shirt Sleeves. Behind a police motorcycle escort, he rolled up to the Astor the next afternoon, just 20 minutes behind schedule. There was a great cheer as he strode to the platform of the Astor ballroom and flung a big brown briefcase beside the rostrum. Grinning broadly, Joe plunged extemporaneously into an hour and a quarter's attack on Communism in Government, broken only momentarily at the halfway mark when he took off his coat and rolled up his shirt sleeves...
...clock in the Detroit city hall tower was bonging high noon when Harry Truman, to the strains of "Hail to the Chief," strode to the rostrum facing crowded Cadillac Square. To Detroit's shirtsleeved thousands, celebrating their city's 250th anniversary, and to the nation, the President spoke a somber warning...
...Alec Guinness explained some of his ideas on staging in the Spectator: "The setting, a formal and rather bleak affair, I take full responsibility for. It was partly the result of reaction against permanent, semi-permanent and realistic sets in Shakespeare, and, above all, a stubborn dislike of the rostrum. Rostrums, apart from cluttering up the stage, tend to produce a one-foot-up, one-foot-down sort of acting which I find peculiarly dispiriting. I have very few conversations on the stairs in my own house...