Significant Moments: Playing Your Audience

It was, as the loquacious Strauss . . .
Jules Witcover, Marathon: The Pursuit of the Presidency 1972-1976.
. . . who was active on the podium one way or another all his long life, . . .
Harold C. Schonberg, The Great Conductors.
. . .wrote later:
Jim Bishop, FDR’s Last Year: April 1944-April 1945.
It was . . . “like giving Heifetz a Stradivarius. . . . ”
Jules Witcover, Marathon: The Pursuit of the Presidency 1972-1976.
“ . . . The son of a bitch . . .
William Faulkner, Light in August.
. . . knows how to play . . .
Jules Witcover, Marathon: The Pursuit of the Presidency 1972-1976.
. . . his audience . . . ”
William Faulkner, Light in August.
And having thus gaily disposed of the difficulty of the moment, . . .
Ernest Newman, The Life of Richard Wagner.
—namely . . .
National Public Radio Online, Bush, Gore Take The Debate on the Road.
. . . the inauguration of . . .
Mark Twain, Christian Science.
. . . a worldwide campaign . . .
Erik H. Erikson, Young Man Luther.
. . . to attract the attention of as many people as possible . . .
Johannes Ehrmann, Float Like a Butterfly.
. . . the Micawber of Bayreuth could breathe freely again . . .
Ernest Newman, The Life of Richard Wagner.
—for a while.
Erik H. Erikson, Young Man Luther.
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