Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fanatic audience in a series of three Omnibus programs. In the first he discussed the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, and used an orchestra to trace the changes Beethoven made in the movement and patterning of his music. Says Bernstein: "Nobody knew whether people would sit still for 45 minutes on a subject like this. I had a notebook full of Beethoven's rejected sketches. We put them back into the symphony to see how it would have sounded if he hadn't been so determined on perfection...
...powerful Pacific Gas & Electricity Co. correctly foresaw that the project might become a threat to private power, and initiated a referendum to defeat it. In some alarm, State Senator Jack McColl and other Central Valley advocates called a strategy meeting and asked Whitaker, a rising young pressagent, to sit in. Also at the meeting was Leone Smith Baxter, 26, a recent widow who was also something of an expert in publicity as well as a prime mover in the C.V.P...
...Ohio. Pastor Adams of Toledo's thriving Ashland Avenue Baptist Church was a Northerner of Northerners, and more surprised to be getting their call than the Southerners were to be giving it to him. When he heard what they wanted, he immediately asked that his wife, Esther, sit in on the discussion. "The only argument that seemed to have any weight," Chairman Moore remembers, "was that the First Baptist Church of Richmond had great influence in the South. One of the committee members put it pretty bluntly: Baptists in the South, he said, suffered from a much too narrow...
...published, to old men reading Plato, to seniors with black goatees and to juniors cultivating Harvard's air of indifference by nodding in class, we extend a glad word. A day of rare Thanksgiving to Nieman and Ford Fellows and other itinerant scholars, and a thought for the girls sitting sideways on the Memorial Church steps. To frustrated souls reading Kinsey in the stacks, to writers whose books have not been reviewed, to students late for lectures, and lecturers who know no applause, a day of relaxation from care. High feasting, too, to the students of Comparative Morphology...
...independents (who hold a five to four edge in the new council) are solid," Sullivan said. While refusing to name their choice, he implied that they have already agreed on their candidate for mayor. "But in any case," he added, "you can bet that no CCA man will sit in the high chair come January...