Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...entered the White House at F.D.R.'s death with a favorable Gallup poll rating of 87%. By October, 1946, the figure dropped to 32%, but Truman won two years later anyway. Particularly interesting in the current Harris poll, however, is the extent of disaffection with Nixon's conduct in this fall's campaigns. Among those polled, 6% rated his campaign performance as "excellent," 29% as "pretty good," 25% as "only fair," and 30% as "poor...
...hierarchy has seen to it that an endless stream of histories and first-person accounts keeps flowing from state publishing houses. But as former Premier Nikita Khrushchev makes clear in the second installment of his reminiscences in LIFE this week, some of the most fascinating material about the Soviet conduct of the war has been scrubbed out of official chronicles...
Barenboim is preparing plenty for the paring. Currently on a three-month U.S. tour, he is now two-thirds through his umpty-umpth cycle of the 32 Beethoven sonatas at Manhattan's Tully Hall. He is also well into a guest-conducting series with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Next month he will conduct the New York Philharmonic for four weeks. His Angel disks (36 to date) seem to come along these days as regularly as books on ecology or space fiction...
...those purists who believe that only Isidore Godfrey can conduct G and S; I have even heard Malcolm Sargent do a good job of it. But one thing I do maintain is that Terrence Tobias cannot conduct G and S-he proved that last night. The pit orchestra's job on the overture was a disaster. The violins were out of tune, the winds were loud and over-represented, the whole piece was taken at a ridiculously slow pace, and nobody seemed to want to come in on cue. This interpretation (if you can call it that...
...sentence-for disorderly conduct and contempt of court-was handed down yesterday by Judge Haven Parker after a 20-minute hearing at the Middle-sex County Third District Court...