Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stylistic school of conducting, for their approach is much too eclectic. Nevertheless, they will be among the most influential figures of the next few decades and undoubtedly will write a new chapter in the history of the art. Before the great age of conductors, Composer Robert Schumann spoke of the orchestra as a republic, not subject to higher authority. But the giants of the last generation, following such 19th century models as Richard Wagner, Hans von Bülow, Artur Nikisch and Gustav Mahler, acted...
...brought to a third difference among us. Earlier today Nick Egleson spoke out against the kind of resistance whose primary motivation is moralistic and personal rather than political. He is saying that we must make ourselves relevant to the social and political condition of the world and must not just take a moral posture for our own soul's sake, even though that too is a risk...
...pilot, a major, who had been shot down 11 days previously. The major, with his right leg and left arm severely fractured, lay in a hospital bed, and talked about the war. Nervous, with his face showing the strain, he said he hoped the war could be "terminated"--he spoke almost throughout in military jargon. He said he agreed with the "Kennedy, Fulbright, Mansfield position," that we "need to take another look in regards to our Vietnamese policy." What about draft-card burners? He was against them. What was needed was "to put the pressure on the politicians through...
Ferber, who received a standing ovation in Lowell Lecture Hall, spoke of the indictments as having a "galvanizing affect on the resistance," and said he hopes "for at least a civil-libertarian victory...
...guns of the Harvard antiwar movement spoke to packed audiences in the Brattle Theatre and Lowell Lecture Hall yesterday in an eight-hour Vietnam teach...