Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...musical merry-go-round is spinning again. Today Levine is the favorite to step into Karajan's shoes, thanks to his good working relationship with the self-governing ensemble during his regular guest-conducting stints. Other possible contenders: Maazel, the Boston Symphony's Seiji Ozawa, Philadelphia's Muti and, farther afield, Leonard Bernstein, now a freelance guest conductor. What marks the new sweepstakes is the increasing desperation with which orchestras pursue the same handful of podium personalities. It is | not that there are too few good conductors, but that there are so few who meet the economic requirements: a hefty...
Like generations before them, today's golfers have discovered that the game can be good for their careers. "A lot of my business associates play," explains Kevin Bryant, 26, an insurance salesman in Greenville, S.C., who took up the sport a year and a half ago. And the handicap system evens out age and ability differences between players. Says Bryant: "It's the only sport where a 45-year-old can compete equally with a 25-year...
...thing, I got a pretty good course in comparative religion -- all based on xenophobia. And since I felt on the fringe anyway, people's approval never mattered to me much. In fact, I thought it was my God-given mission to shock and upset people. I was always smart. I always knew what to say. When I was eight, I'd go around to churches talking about being a Mormon and a Jew. They call it manipulation when women do it. With men, they call it will...
...Kendall College in Evanston, Ill., which serves specialties like roast quail stuffed with duck sausage and hazelnuts, receives raves from Stewart Koppel, a retired businessman, who drives three hours round trip with his wife Sadelle for dinner. Says he: "We keep coming back because the food is so good, and we get a kick out of the kids...
...teaching restaurants are a good deal for both schools and patrons. Proceeds from the dining room of little Dumas Pere culinary school in Glenview, Ill., a Chicago suburb, help underwrite tuition costs for the 14 students. "The course value is $28,000," says school director Juan Snowden. "But the dining room profit helps knock almost $20,000 off that." Mark Erickson, the director of culinary education at C.I.A., speaks for many food educators, though, when he says, "We're more interested in students' getting good training in the restaurants than in making a good profit...