Word: adler
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...like celestial chimes. "Her voice is remarkably beautiful," says Met Music Director James Levine, who has been Battle's mentor since 1973. "All voices differ, and there are lots of beautiful voices, but hers has a unique personality and a unique timbre." Others echo Levine's praise. Kurt Herbert Adler, former general director of the San Francisco Opera, cast Battle as Oscar the page in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera in 1977. Remembers Adler: "After we auditioned her, I wrote in my notes: 'bombshell...
That complex merger calls for Forstmann to sell Revlon's beauty-products business to Adler & Shaykin, another New York investment firm, for about $900 million. Forstmann will spin off several other Revlon units to New York-based American Home Products for an estimated $350 million. The transactions will leave Forstmann with the rest of Revlon's health-care business, including prescription drugs and contact lenses...
...stitch. At 65, Leah Adler still has enough vim to run a kosher restaurant in West Los Angeles with her second husband Bernie while moonlighting as an extra in the Amazing Stories episode directed by Clint Eastwood. Back in the early '60s, though, in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, Leah Spielberg could summon just enough energy to ride the roller coaster called Young Steven. "He was my first, so I didn't know that everybody didn't have kids like him," she recalls with a happy shrug. "I just hung on for dear life. He was always the center...
...essay, "The Sunshine Girls: Renata Adler and Joan Didion," he points points to the simplistic, "unearned nibilism" these authors have adopted from the tradition of modernism Elsewhere the castigates those writers who reduce affairs of the heart to a affairs of the glands. Epstein wants literatures sustain man and make him "better." Unfortunately, the feminists and leftists Epstein attacks claim that the amelioration and richness of life lie within the conflicts of politics and gender. Quickly and predictably, the argument turns from literature to philosophy and politics...
...founder of TA, Psychiatrist Eric Berne, presented the Parent-Adult-Child in Games People Play (1964), an urbane and witty analysis of how these three divisions of the ego can produce self-defeating scripts or "games." Thomas Harris added Psychiatrist Alfred Adler's concept of a universal "inferiority feeling." In Harris' view, many people go through life thinking of themselves as helpless children overwhelmed by adults. This stance, which he calls "I'm not OK -- You're OK," is often no one's fault. Even good parents who warn their children not to run into a busy street can build...