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It hardly mattered. There were hundreds of other notables to engage the philosopher's attention. Although he was at constant odds with colleagues like Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy and Dwight Macdonald, Hook was associated with the opinion molders of the Partisan Review, perhaps the closest thing to the claustrophobic Bloomsbury...
At 51, Seiji Ozawa of the Boston Symphony is at the top of his profession. Yet the Japanese conductor remains a man of two worlds.
In a sense, Warhol was to the art world what his buddy of the discos, Roy Cohn, was to law. Just as Cohn degraded the image of the legal profession while leaving no doubt about his own forensic brilliance, so Warhol released toxins of careerism, facetiousness and celebrity worship into...
A hopeful player of not inconsiderable gifts, Meissner qualified for U.S. Opens at Hazeltine and Winged Foot during the '70s. But his full-fledged entry into the profession was delayed by suspicions that as a young country-club golfer in Maryland, he was a cheater. It seems Meissner's errant...
A Runnin' Rebel of 1980, Flintie Ray Williams has worked his way up in the years since, from blackjack dealer to pit boss at the Golden Nugget. "It's not a hard profession to break into," he explains. "All you have to do is count to 21." Among Williams' old...