Unlike the 1951 Festival, which had a presiding genius in Sir Hugh Casson, this time there are dozens of designers and committees.
Although he was a Christian and a Quaker, his plays laid out no sure means of salvation and no clear sense of a presiding power, benign or otherwise.
In America, where the separation of the jobs of chairman and chief executive is normally seen as a sign of weakness or as a transitional arrangement, the New York Stock Exchange wants independent directors to meet regularly under a presiding director.
"The more I went about as a presiding officer I could see that there were very few in local government, very few women magistrates, all the public health boards, school governors - there just aren't the women coming forward, " she added.
But Mr Wahid is the leader of a minority party presiding over a loose coalition, whose colleagues can run their ministries as their own fiefs and yet blame him for the slow pace of reform.
MSPs are due to begin arriving at Holyrood where over the coming days they will be sworn in and choose a new presiding officer.
The Democratic majority in the Congress, who follow their intuition when blocking free trade deals, have stalled the ratification of the signed free trade agreement with a government presiding over Colombia's recovering, almost surging economy.
Alarmed by savage cost-cutting that year (88 employees were fired) and the prospect of more to come, the trust asked George Reid, a former presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament, and other worthies to suggest changes.
Formal education was no part of this pattern of life, but Letitia learned all the skills of managing a plantation, rearing a family, and presiding over a home that would be John Tyler's refuge during an active political life.
At a time when Mr Bush is presiding over a plunge in the public finances and when his record on trade is (to put it politely) mixed, this looks reckless.
One day last February, a judge in Lago Agrio, presiding over a spare, concrete courtroom in a shopping mall on the edge of town, issued an opinion that reverberated far beyond the Amazon.
That decision, the first of its kind, was handed down late Wednesday by a Silicon Valley federal judge presiding over nearly a dozen combined lawsuits seeking damages from Google for eavesdropping on open Wi-Fi networks from its Street View mapping cars.
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In a statement, Mr Stewart accused the minister of presiding over a culture of "intimidation and blame".
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In response to Mr Assad's comments, Mr Hague said the Syrian president was a man "presiding over this slaughter".
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The tribunal itself suffered a set-back last month, when hours of conversation over Skype between one of its presiding judges and a Brussels-based lawyer were revealed in the press.
Presiding over a row of volunteers combing through computerized voter lists on this particular day is Allen Unruh.
At a minimum, a lead (or presiding) director should be appointed as an interim step.
Still, Mr Gove is presiding over a big shift in the way exams are handled.
But Lord Elis-Thomas was presiding at a graduation ceremony in Bangor University while the vote took place.
Presiding over a party at war with itself, she would struggle to assert power as prime minister.
U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy is presiding over a lawsuit brought by Guantanamo Bay prisoners challenging their detention.
Though Americans for Prosperity is purportedly nonpartisan, its ads attack Obama for presiding over a growing federal deficit.
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was presiding over a two-day conference on the independence of the judiciary.
And it was Mr Brown who left the public finances in a dodgy state after presiding over an extended spending spree.
Instead, Specter found himself yesterday in an almost surreal position, presiding over a hearing on a bill the Senate's already passed.
He spent the next six years presiding over a government whose course was steered from Capitol Hill, not the White House.
Mr Ozawa could soon find himself presiding over a party that has shrivelled to barely a third of its original size.
Whatever the future holds for the new Lord Mayor, one thing is certain: he is presiding over a deeply divided city.
He will also have to live with the guilt of presiding over a company that employed 29 souls no longer on this earth.
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His reputation is already under fire in some quarters, and he will not want to spoil his record by presiding over a prolonged downturn.
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