Word: limelights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ebullient, frizzy-haired "Sasha" Schneider is, at 59, a second fiddler the likes of which chamber music has rarely seen. Whirling like a dervish around the fringes of the limelight, he is not only a tireless performer but also an enormously influential catalyst and organizer, teacher and tastemaker. Wherever he goes, music seems to happen around him through a sort of spontaneous combustion...
...from Bombay. Despite their pervasive presence in U.S. business, the family so shunned the limelight that President-elect Warren G. Harding had to ask, "Who is Mellon?" when Andrew W. was recommended to him for the job of Secretary of the Treasury. "Uncle Andy" served from 1921 to 1932, but he will probably be better remembered as the collector who gave the nation a $50 million art collection and a building (now the National Gallery of Art) to house...
Twice in recent years McCarthy found himself in the national limelight -and both times he came across as an engaging, articulate partisan in a losing cause...
Fellow nurses jostled for their autographs. Much as they obviously enjoyed the limelight, they discussed their experience in cool, shoptalk tones, insisting that a heart transplant is really just another open-heart operation-an area of medicine in which they all are veterans...
...perhaps unfair that Baker and Shaw dominated the limelight--unfair but understandable. No matter how fast someone runs the two-mile or the two-mile relay, or how far someone puts the shot or how high someone pole vaults, the four-minute miler will be the hero of track and field. Even though dozens of runners have broken four minutes since Bannister and the world record is now an impossible 3:51.1, four minutes remains the magic mark, the measure of the miler's mettle. And everyone seems to think that one of these days either Baker or Shaw...