Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delighted with your report on Bank Street College [Oct. 7]. A '64 graduate of the college, I am currently working with deprived youngsters in Project Head Start, and can attest to the success of the theory of "learning to learn" before teaching others...
...returned from a refresher course at the head office in Chicago or-more frequently-a spin around the company's foreign plants. Though a Seattle citizen still prides himself on his knowledge of when and where the steelheads are striking, his horizons have been much widened by the success of the Boeing Co., the city's chief industry. Nowadays, as a simple matter of self-interest, he is usually impelled to consider Saudi Arabia's search for new aircraft, how the Russians are doing with their SST or the state of the Japanese economy...
Flushed with success, Hamburg State Opera Director Rolf Liebermann described The Visitation as "the best opera since Wozzeck." U.S. audiences may have a chance to see and hear for themselves next summer, when Liebermann expects to bring The Visitation to Manhattan as part of the Hamburg Opera's first American visit...
...good concertmaster is as rare as a humble conductor. He is indispensable to a conductor's success and, as such, is guarded and pampered like a mistress. Sir John Barbirolli refers to his man as his "chief of staff," Eugene Ormandy's is his "mind reader," William Steinberg's his "seismograph," Donald Johanos' his "stroke...
Time was, any concert soloist worth his cadenza had to spend several long, lean years on the road building a reputation. Today, budding virtuosos are rerouting their careers to take advantage of a new short cut to instant success: contests. More combat than competition, music tournaments have grown in size and importance to the point where there is a contest among contests, each one claiming to be more prestigious than the next. But when it comes to money, none can match Fort Worth's Van Cliburn International Quadrennial Piano Competition, which offers a top prize...