Word: vigillantly
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...Vigil's End. In the withering preliminary rounds, the first to be weeded out were the conductors who, like a child walking a Great Dane, were unable to hold a tight rein on the Orchestra of America. In the semifinals, which none of a ten-man U.S. contingent was able to reach, the remaining 13 candidates were put through a musical obstacle course: they had to conduct the first movement of Berlioz' Symphonic Fantastique, Debussy's First Rhapsody for clarinet and piano, a recitative and aria from Beethoven's Fidelio, and a surprise modern piece-Andre...
...seven survivors, the worst part was waiting for the judges' decision. Their vigil came to an end last week when, after 45 minutes' deliberation, the ten judges, led by Leonard Bernstein, filed onto Carnegie Hall's stage to announce the winners...
Earlier in the day, an estimated 1000 demonstrators braved the near 90-degree midday heat to keep a half-hour silent vigil in front of the White House. At least one man collapsed under the withering...
...enlisted in the Marine Corps only two days before, was on his way home from his job as a drive-in movie projectionist. He stopped near a crowd, including some acquaintances, on a downtown street close to the Sumter County Courthouse. There, 250 Negroes were holding an all-night "vigil," demanding the unconditional release of four Negro women jailed on a charge of "blocking the entrance to a polling place" when they tried to vote in a line reserved for white women...
Last April the emergency committee, which is sponsored by the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation, took a two-page ad in the New York Times to proclaim: MR. PRESIDENT: IN THE NAME OF GOD, STOP IT! Many of its members showed up in Washington a month later for a mass vigil at the Pentagon, protesting escalation of the Viet...