Word: proving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...portraits of Kreisler, Szigeti, Milstein-all good friends of Galamian's -glare down from the walls. The air seems to tingle with his awesome reputation in the violin world. Isaac Stern calls him "the most effective violin teacher in the country," and he certainly has the alumni to prove it. Most of the brightest young soloists in the U.S. are Galamian products; Itzhak Perlman, Young Uck Kim, Jaime Laredo, Paul Zukofsky and James Oliver Buswell IV. In addition, Galamian has trained top chamber players like Arnold Steinhardt of the Guarneri Quartet and orchestra concertmasters like David Nadien...
...prove it, his parents like to recall his days as a political activist. During the 1964 presidential campaign, Craig went to work for the Lyndon Johnson campaign headquarters in Van Nuys. Later, Craig dropped the President a note: "I'll support you again in 1968, if you'll promise to support me in 1988." Sure enough, Craig was invited to the inauguration. When he stepped off the plane back in Los Angeles, half the student body from his school was there to meet him with signs reading "HUNDLEY FOR PRESIDENT-1988." Craig liked that. As he is well...
Flickering Flame. Birth and Death, as the film is titled, this week provided a powerful start for the Public Broadcast Laboratory's second and possibly last season. A $12,5 million, two-year experiment of the Ford Foundation, PBL was founded to prove that public TV, if adequately financed, could light candles of culture and significance amid the darkness of commercial TV. But during its first year, the flame of PBL flickered disappointingly...
Since the ratings went into effect Nov. 1, the M.P.A.A. has classified more than 100 pictures. Yellow Submarine, for example, got a G. Only four films, including Birds in Peru, rated an X. Theater owners insist that they are abiding by the code; industry representatives generally believe it will prove workable...
...From a dead father's reservoir of rich es. I retreat further and further back. Behind my own lonely elegance. Where no one will ever again get to know me. And speak less and less." These are the thoughts of Balthazar B, whose picaresque life story seems to prove F. Scott Fitzgerald's statement that "the very rich are different from you and me." Actually, rich or poor, J. P. Don-leavy's characters always appear to lead lives destroyed in some way by money...