Word: limelight
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...will gleefully set about tying together loose ends, looking ahead to more work of an official sort, or savoring the simple satisfaction of a job well done. And it is likely that the sum of individual estimations of importance will exceed the whole. There are those who shunned the limelight and gave advice and who will now wait patiently to receive the call in January for the high honor of public service. Others wrote the speeches and heard them delivered countless times, experiencing countless vicarious pleasures with each repeated utterance. Still others commanded the organizations in each important state, directed...
...this age of universal gourmandise, hardly a celebrity in the U.S. will not confess to being a closet chef. To put unsung Escoffiers in the limelight-and raise some money-the March of Dimes' New York chapter held a gourmet gala at the Waldorf-Astoria last week. Over hot stoves and chopping boards that ringed the ballroom, 26 contestants from the beautiful, the clever and the famed doggedly demonstrated their epicurean eptitude...
...course, only the subplots of sport. Center stage is reserved for face-to-face competition between well-matched and celebrated athletes who have been addressing their lives for months-or years-to a moment of confrontation. Sometimes, even often, others win, but until the last act is over, the limelight is theirs. Five sets of such athletes, both blessed and cursed with each other's achievements, are profiled in the following pages. Four are expected to bring the Olympics moments of high drama. But barring a surprise reversal by Tanzania, the long-awaited meeting of Filbert Bayi...
Miller's initial success in the Open came in 1973 when he was runner up after winning the United States Championship the same year. He first came into the limelight while still a 16-year-old sophomore at Brigham Young, finishing eighth in the U.S. Open at Olympic...
...choice is characteristic of Bok's preference for working out of the limelight; if one had to choose the most obscure side of the academic world, faculty appointments would be high on the list. Business School Dean Fouraker, who like many of Bok's admirers speaks disparagingly of Yale's Brewster, doubts that Brewster--"who gets a lot of publicity, takes a lot of positions, and is sensitive to the media"--gets involved in the appointments of faculty. Bok's choice, he believes, "is one for which we should be grateful...