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Word: kochleffl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...supreme power broker in the music world, albeit a rather puckish, cherubic one. "I've never been able to live in a cocoon," he says. "I have a long buttinsky nose." In Yiddish-one of the six languages he either speaks or understands -the expression is a kochleffl (a stirrer-up of the pot). Even his relaxations are strenuous. Says Leonard Bernstein: "You should play tennis with him some time. My God, the force, the velocity of those balls! He's a bull out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Tempo at 60: Prestissimo | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

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