Word: successes
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With some success: Burger-inspired innovations like federal court administrators have helped make judges measurably more productive. Burger's off-the-court duties consume as much as a third of his time. "The Chief Justice has two jobs," says Powell. "The rest of us have one." Says White: "I have a feeling Burger gets refreshed by his involvement in other duties, such as being chairman of the Judicial Conference. It's like us going to the beach...
...Alfred Adler. Yet by choice and necessity, he remained a soul apart. He lived a frugal, ascetic life with his wife and four chil dren, eking out his income by teaching, by doing hack jobs for his music pub lisher and by conducting. He had a mea sure of success on the podium despite his distaste for the hubbub of the per forming life. He demanded unusual expressive nuances from his players, especially in the pianissimo range; musicians joked that he had invented the pensato, a note so subtle that the per former only thought of it. His conductor...
...Lives is both informal biography and personal memoir, taking on emotional urgency as Nephew Korda recounts his efforts not to imitate his inimitable uncle. Eventually Michael did find his own style and substance as editor in chief of Simon & Schuster and writer of the bestselling pop studies Power! and Success...
Both Glashow and Weinberg have a manifest interest in popularizing their fields. A few years ago, Weinberg published "The First Three Minutes" a work which reconstructs in layman's terms the events that followed the Big Bang. It was an enormous success, both here and abroad, and has been translated into many languages. In fact, the book has sold much better in Germany than in the U.S. Glashow, who plans one day to write a book along the lines of his undergraduate course, finds this disturbing: "a better scientifically informed public would be far more capable of dealing with...
...office have encouraged a growing confidence in the future of the city. The mayor has attracted large sums of federal money to Boston, which is in good, financial shape. Although White's recent failure to adequately address the issue of racism does not speak well for him, his past success in leading Boston through the worst of racial times is commendable. White runs Boston like a Russian noble ruling his estate--demanding service and giving favors in return. But, as other major American cities have floundered, his machine brand of politics seems to have kept Boston on its feet...