Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some Slavic Vesuvius." Interviewing Rostropovich's many friends and associates for our story on the new musical director of Washington's National Symphony Orchestra, eleven TIME correspondents in bureaus around the world found similar signs of lava, smoke and fire wherever Rostropovich has wandered. In Jerusalem, Isaac Stern talked to TIME'S Robert Slater about "the intensity, the sheer eruptive force behind Rostropovich's enthusiasm." In New York City, Reporter-Researcher Rosemarie Tauris Zadikov interviewed Leonard Bernstein, who recalled how Rostropovich first came to dinner a decade ago, bringing "records, tapes, scores and messages from Shostakovich...
...aware that there is a long march ahead. Says his close friend, Violinist Isaac Stern: "Slava knows that there are certain elements of the classic repertoire that he still has to grow into. He will not pretend that he can match the 30 or 40 years of experience of any master conductor...
Harvard was the only competitor in the 21-school field to reel off five sub-eighty rounds on Sunday, but yesterday the capricious winds and spike-marked greens made the Geoffrey Cornish-designed course a stern examination paper...
...organist in a London church, then moved to St. Bartholomew's in New York. In 1909 he became the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony. He was young (27) and virtually untried, but magisterially handsome and already with the mark of genius upon him. Under the gaze of his stern blue eyes, matrons twittered, instrumentalists quailed and other cities began paying attention. Three years later he was off to Philadelphia-the wooing had been mutual-where he would reign for 26 years...
Lyndon Johnson would have agreed. When he invited Lowell to the White House in 1965, the poet wired a stern refusal, explaining that he regarded "our present foreign policy with the greatest dismay and distrust." Among old friends or in class at Harvard, where he taught for many years, he was a vivid, eloquent presence. He could hold forth for hours on any subject, his hands brushing back his unkempt white mane. And his poetry revealed the same confiding voice that animated his conversation. The controlled metrics of Lord Weary's Castle and The Mills of the Kavanaughs...