Word: partier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What sort of individuals would subject themselves to this sort of testing? One freshman participant describes himself as being a partier, a spendthrift, and very flamboyant. "I need the money for other forms of partying. My parents know [about the test], and they realize that I am 18, and this is my own decision...
...HILDESHEIMER WARNED at the outset, this confident though unassuming biography leaves us with a still-unresolved composite of "an inconceivably great mind." All the cliched preconceptions--the angelic genius, the pauper-composer who hardly needed to think about the music he produced, the partier--are soon quashed. Hildesheimer, steeped for three decades in Mozart's music and history, shares with his reader the honest belief that his subject will remain "forever puzzling and unapproachable...